“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
~ from Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951
This is my only New Year's Resolution for 2024. I'm not a smoker, so I will substitute coffee for that part. Occasionally absinthe.
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(1) Selfie in front of Gallery Espresso on Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia
(2) My new tattoo on my left inner forearm (February 2024): “only connect,” the epigraph of Howards End by my favorite writer E.M. Forster, and really the theme of all his novels (including Maurice, my favorite novel). Typewriter font. Inked by James Tuck.
only connect teams are either "three of the meanest old people you've ever seen" or "family, probably captained by their idiot son" or "two grotty men and the most gorgeous and intelligent woman you've ever seen" or "three people who are deeply autistic, but varying levels of cool" or "three possibly-queer, definitely art-making ladies who will probably do mediocre-to middling well, but will be the biggest breath of fresh air you see all series" or "strangers"
Victoria Coren Mitchell is an absolutely bewildering host on Only Connect. It's like you took the soul of Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka and had him host Jeopardy with - and this is crucial - technical perfection. Every contestant is so very straight-laced and their host makes jokes about the c-word with a straight face. She's perfection.
New tattoo on my left inner forearm: “only connect,” the epigraph of Howards End by my favorite writer E.M. Forster, and really the theme of all his novels (including Maurice, my favorite novel). Typewriter font. Inked by James Tuck.
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.”