“I’m So Normal About Them”

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

“Well, even great celestial hieroglyphs / Are bodies of dust illuminated, and if / The heavens can be both sacred and dust / Oh, maybe so can the rest of us”

- Hieroglyphs, Eurus, The Oh Hellos

O DEATHLESS SEA / irene by simon harsent / the invading surf by frederick judd waugh / the mediterranean in the ancient world by fernand braudel (trans. siân reynolds) / stormy sea by ivan konstantinovich aivazovsky / dancing in odessa by ilya kaminsky / i lived the beloved name by odysseus elytis (trans. olga broumas & t. begley) / strong winds and high tides battered a coastal road close to newtownards, northern ireland by peter morrison /  shipwreck off the cliffs of dover at night with dover castle in the distance by eugène lepoittevin / the odyssey, book 13 by homer (trans. emily wilson) / seebild by ingo kühl

After Dark, Haruki Murakami

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf