February 2012
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“She carried her pocket Shakespeare about with her, and met life fortified by the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via sketchofthepast)
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“As if tears were the necessary lubricant without which the machine of mutual connection could not work successfully, the two sisters, after those tears, started talking, not about what preoccupied them, but about unrelated things, and they understood each other.”
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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“Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those we love in any way...”
– Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (via postoutpost)
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“To keep these notes natural and useful to me I must keep one note from leading...”
– W. B. Yeats from Autobiographies (via gravellyrun)
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“The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up in at the instant when...”
– Walter Benjamin from Theses on the Philosophy of History (via gravellyrun)
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The Hunger Games is starting to catch on…I am saturating them with dystopian fiction — “Harrison Bergeron”, The Hunger Games, “The Lottery”, and “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas.” Once they hit chapter 8 of HG they are hooked. I am on chapter 8 of Catching Fire.
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“It was green in the garden; grey the next. Here came the sun — an illimitable...”
– Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (via sketchofthepast)
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“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover
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“He broke off abruptly, seeing that he was not understood. Some great enthusiasm...”
– Algernon Blackwood, The Wings of Horus (1914). (via emanationsoftheyellowsign)
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“But, by renouncing her in this way, he set her apart, making her into something...”
– Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via lovelyknots)
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Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize. The Piano Teacher is a very bitter account of the life of a woman groomed by a suffocating mother to pursue music and the secretive alter life she maintains in the face of fascist control — personally and by the society surrounding her. When I read it, it rings so true. Every vitriolic impulse I have ever felt is given light in this novel. That being...
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At Melville’s Tomb
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched, Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured. And wrecks passed without sound of bells, The calyx of death’s bounty giving back A scattered chapter, livid hieroglyph, The portent wound in corridors of shells. Then...
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“It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”
– Julia Child (via odettecarotte)
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Walter Klemmer eyes her anxiously, because she is floating away from him.
—Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
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“Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us / yesterday,separate in the evening…” —Rilke tr. Stephen Mitchell
~~posted by Opheliasings on Twitter
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Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars
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Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat....
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Her briefcase is clamped under her arm as usual, tightly zipped up and closed. Erika has closed everything about her that could be opened.
—Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
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From an intricate package, she carefully unwraps a razor blade. She always takes it everywhere. The blade smiles like a bridegroom at a bride.
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (Erika)
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Skipping notes, a subtle vendetta against her musically untrained torturers, gives her a tiny thrill of satisfaction.
—Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (Erika)
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“Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer that...”
– Alain Robbe-Grillet in the Paris Review (via fsgbooks)
“…in order to delegitimize a violent system, we have to delegitimize violence....”
– Stephanie Van Hook (via azspot)
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“Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being ‘like this’. Examine for...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (via karmadance)