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She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.
ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER by Olivie Blake ★★★★
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So I have alone with you in the ether, fleabag, the anthropocene reviewed brainrot. Like please give me things that make me love the world and also cry uncontrollably please I beg
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NO BECAUSE IN THE BEGINNING OTHER PEOPLE NARRATE THEIR STORY. THEY DON'T WANT THEIR OWN STORY TO BE TOLD THEY DON'T WANNA DO THE WORK OF TELLING IT BUT THEN THEY MEET EACH OTHER AND SUDDENLY THEY OTHER NARRATORS FALL AWAY AND IT'S THEM AND THEN YOU GO DEEPER INTO THEIR MIND AND THEIR STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS AND YOU FIND THEM YOU SEE THEM AS THEY ARE, THEIR TRUTHS AND THEIR LIES AND YOU GET TO WITNESS THEM WRAP AROUND EACH OTHER AND BECOME MORE AND MORE INTWINED
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Olivie Blake about Alone with you in the ether
“it’s a quiet book. not much happens unless you consider love to be transformative, momentous. it will say very little to some and very much to others.”
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"I think you carry around a sadness from another life," she said. "From centuries ago."
Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether
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On Change
"may autumn be proof that change is a beautiful thing even though it can be hard to see at first"
"a joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this!"
"I don't like how endings in real like come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning.
One minute you're in the middle of something and the next it's all a very long time ago and you're a different person…
and none of it's coming back."
"...But this is the very condition of existence.
To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter.
To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."
"cause everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn't"
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alone with you in the ether is not a romance dammit it's about that glowing thing that you find in the pits of catharsis, it's about the car crash that shakes you out of your ennui, it's about the sensation of feeling a hand suddenly caressing you in the pitch black when you had thought you were solitary all along
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alone with you in the ether / olivie blake (2020)
natasha liu bordizzo as charlotte regan
jorge lendeborg jr. as rinaldo “aldo” damiani
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