March 31, 1925 Journals Of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

Chris Abani, from "Terminus", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]

I guess real connection is so rare nowadays that any connection at all feels cosmic

For better or worse, I hold on to that

And I cannot ascribe meaning to anything when the landscape of meaning is ever-shifting

But, god, do I try

“i thirst for you. don’t walk away from me. tell me everything, even if you have to hurt me a little. no one in the world will love anything you do as much as i do. tell me about the you i love, the one who’s a little shivery. let yourself go. don’t force yourself on me, just because you don’t want to worry or help me. when you strip in front of me, i finally understand why i was born. i love you.”

— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, January 14-15, 1950 [#131]

‘Ghost in the Shell’ 1995, recreated in haunting still life

Robert Eggers, from the original Nosferatsu script (2016)

Text ID: I have sought a creature from the depths. An Eve that remembers her Eden. You are such a one.

Yohji Yamamoto: Leather Hand Bags Hand-Painted by Junji Ito, Only 2 In Existence

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

me in the spring sun

“The bowl of wild roses. The English knives and forks. Greek cigarettes. The battered and sea-stained notebook in which I rough out my poems.”

— Lawrence Durrel, from Prospero’s Cell: and Reflections on a Marine Venus (1945)