no cause id totally want to do this with my friends ( which i dont have)
one time my friend and i came up with a basic “language” called wheat vegetable root. wheat represented every noun. vegetable represented every verb. root represented every adjective. it was very body language based. if my friend beckoned and said “vegetable”, i understood that my friend was telling me to walk with them. if my friend pointed to something and said “wheat”, i understood that they were showing me something. if they said “root wheat” and smiled, they’re saying this thing is good. if they say “root wheat” and frown, they’re saying this thing is bad. we spent a whole day talking like this and drove the rest of our friends insane.
La Nuit (before 1937)
— by Auguste Raynaud
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
— C.S. Lewis
the art of cruelty: a reckoning, maggie nelson
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
I have a terrible habit of leaving things unsaid for the sake of peace
August 5, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera (translated by Michael Henry Heim)