October 2010
My dearest Lytton, There is a great deal to say, and I feel very incompetent to write it today. Lytton, you’re the only person who I ever had an all-absorbing passion for. I shall never have another. I couldn’t, now. I had one of the most self-abasing loves that a person can have. You never knew, or never will know, the very big and devastating love I had for you. How I adored every...
S.
tu sei cara al mio cuore
Io sono l’astratto, io sono i miliardi; io sono, sì, l’incanto della foresta!
– Fitzcarraldo (eclipsed)
Solo dopo aver conosciuto la superficie delle cose ci si può spingere a cercare...
– Italo Calvino, Palomar (_)
You don’t know how wonderful dirt is.
– James Joyce to Sigfried Giedion, 1940 (kk)
there is something wrong with me
besides
melancholia.
– charles bukowski, melancholia (libraryland)
Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something...
– H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space, 1927
All great and precious things are lonely.
– John Steinbeck (exo)
It generated white noise, this place, she guessed, on some confusingly vast...
– Gibson, Spook Country (leadsalad)
Contemporary art hates you. — John Waters (obsoletedesolate)