February 2009
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“He has, if the truth be told, been putting it off for months: the moment when he...”
– J.M. Coetzee, “Disgrace” (via paperbackgirl)
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Arthur Russell, “A Little Lost.”
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Submission
Sitting here, I come up against something, Perhaps it is a desire to change my state, or for things to be different.
I try to bring the question, “Who am I?” It remains unanswerable.
Having grown tired of living in the basement, I take the mask off.
I wish to see and to be seen. Until there is no longer a struggle for, nor against, just a yielding to that which is.
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“The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We...”
– Li Po
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Alessi Brothers, “Seabird.”
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“Boredom is simply a lack of attention.”
– Christopher Fremantle
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“Gautauma said that one is fooling oneself if one says that the I exists, but in...”
– Samuel Beckett
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“Number of seconds that the average person can wait for an elevator before...”
– Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (as reported by Editorial Humor Magazine, Issue 166, Vol. 8)
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“For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life - but...”
– Alfred D’Souza
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“Happy,” I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary,” Chapter Five
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“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of...”
– Claude Debussy
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via ataraxic) (via skysignal) (via mawayla) (via mytoes) (via iwantmybearsuit) (via wrox) (via bebelestrange) (via unicornology) (via sarahsaturday)
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“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost...”
– Marc Chagall
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“I have been working on it - learning to write… but mostly learning to tell the...”
– Louise Brooks 