#John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[quotein]

“But I do feel strange, almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.”

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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[wedarkacademia]

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[asoftepiloguemylove]

"But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived."

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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[apocketfullofpoesis]

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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[youweremyversaillesatnight]

kristen and cassandra: prophet, apostate, saint, god

(you can find the majority under the cut - this is quite long)

Oxford Languages // (could not find) // Wikipedia // Berlin Syndrome, Sparky Deathcap // the hero who couldn't save anyone, m.a.w // Prayer for the Newly Damned, Ocean Vuong // Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky // confessions, k.a. // Little Bird, Clementine von Radics // (could not find) // If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird // (could not find) // Prelude, Brynne Rebele-Henry // Crossing the Water, Sylvia Plath // (could not find) // Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White // Half Hanged Mary, Margaret Atwood // Power Politics: Poems, Margaret Atwood // (could not find) // Rachel Wolchin // Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, John Steinbeck // Editor's Pages: The Long and Short of It, Richard Siken // Not Forgotten, Israel Houghton // (could not find) // Churching, Kristin Chang // I'm Your Man, Mitski // Cassandra, ABBA // Dimension 20 LIVE presents Fantasy High: Sophomore Year (2019) // Dimension 20: Fantasy High: Junior Year (2024)

#once again i prove myself incapable of keeping these things to a reasonable length #this web weave is slightly shorter than my tula one but only slightly #vaguely inspired by my kristen-is-a-god post but probably doesn't have to be read that way #kristen applebees #cassandra fantasy high #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #d20 #dimension 20 #web weaving

[thefirstlivingart]

it's scary when things change, its scary when things stay the same.

pinterest / john steinbeck, journal of a novel: the east of eden letters / holly warburton / pinterest / john elizabeth stintzi, "saluta-tions from the storm” /  henri barbusse, the inferno (boni and liveright, 1918) / jeanie tomanek / @swarnpert on tumblr / junot díaz, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao / sylvia plath, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath / amy casey / pinterest / hilma af klint / mary oliver, upstream / anaïs nin, the diary of anaïs nin, vol. 6: 1955-1966 / @thepersonalquotes on tumblr

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[a-poets-darling]

But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, from Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

(It's been all too long since I have posted but I am alive and well too . I missed you people I hope you missed me too)

(all too real photo dump)

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #poetry #art #poem #quotes #reading #authors #classic literature

[oswlld]

heather havrilesky, what if this were enough?

(There are many causes of death, among them the ache of life.)

mahmoud darwish, almond blossoms and beyond; “i do not know the stranger”

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.

joseph campbell

john steinbeck, journal of a novel: the east of eden letters

Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair, and yet be tortured by hope.

mary shelley, frankenstein

catherine gildiner, good morning, monster: five heroic journeys to emotional recovery

I’m chasing myself (I have been for years).

susan sontag, as consciousness is harnessed to flesh

I’m homesick for myself In a place of home is a face I no longer recognize

lillium, in the place of the mirror is a portrait of you

miriam adeney

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

haruki murakami, norwegian wood

“If I change my mind, can I come back here?”

And then he answered his own question. “If I come back, it will be a place, but it won’t be home any longer.”

neil gaiman, the graveyard book

I: Why not take the shorter way home. HT: There was no shorter way home.

anne carson, men in the off hours

We can never go back.  I know that now.  We can go forward.  We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart’s longing.

bell hooks, all about love

ryebreadgf, ordinary things

You listen and you know you could live a better life than you do, be softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will be able to do it.

mary oliver, north country

stendhal, the red and the black

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VICE VERSA (2022) ⪢ Underlying Themes/Experiences in Universal Travel — Part 2 of 2: Reconstruction of Self, Homesickness, Acceptance, & Hope

#vice versa #vice versa the series #viceversaedit #web weaving #mine: edits #mary shelley #neil gaiman #bell hooks #vishingwell #samblr #userjaehwany #epiphanjins #usersarawatine #tusersilence #tuserhidden #userhanjiwoos #userkit #tonanons #userbillkin #userconcrete #like i said in part one #this is more or less my love letter to the other universal travelers #this time its for the people trying their best #either to make the most in their stay and those who want to leave #esp those whove been around more than five years #like how courageous to be there for 8 years like dol and still council a group like this #and still want a portkey and go home #and pang making peace with going back after all shes been through #fuseaou are so so cute but what about pangdolllllllll #bring them homeeeee

[juliamoloks]

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

#bookworm #book quotes #reading #bookish #literature #bookblr #books and literature #books #books and reading #english literature #john steinbeck #east of eden

[griffith-ass-mf]

But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find l've survived.

- John Steinbeck, from Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

#me dissociating #hypomania #literature #ayanami rei #rei ayanami #idk man #neon genesis evangelion #john steinbeck

[parisaneonaa]

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[lulavvpoetry]

“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.”

-John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[charlestrask]

tattoo plan. go to the university of texas harry ransom center's john steinbeck collection. find the original handwritten letters later published in journal of a novel. scan "although east of eden is not eden it is not insuperably far away." get it tattooed in steinbecks handwriting going around my arm. now i just have to find some reason to go to austin.

#*

[are-we-really-differnt]

But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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[gnatswatting]

• I do feel strange -- almost unearthy. I'll never get quite used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I have survived. —John Steinbeck

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (at Internet Archive)

[nicole-alexandria]

“But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.”

—John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

#video diary #nature #forest #hiking adventures #california #winter #december #quote #john steinbeck #trees