Jul 8, 2017

adioses

"When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy."

Griffin McElroy, The Adventure Zone

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“What a born melancholic I am! I feel that I’m sinking down, down. And as usual I feel that if I sink further I shall reach the truth. That is the only mitigation; a kind of nobility. Solemnity.”

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. June 1929 

Jul 2, 2017

influences



.whenever I touch an object so I too am touched by it, flesh is the experience of the world in me, a doubled sensation imperfectly represented by dualist language.

(de una señora que habla suavecito y se llama Linda Martín Alcoff)

The lesser blessed

I have to tell you something, I said, I’m not going to lie, I have to tell you I have this god-shaped hole in my  heart, and I think you do ...