January 2012
3 posts
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“Emma isn’t a person. Emma is a place that you get stuck in. Emma’s a pain that you can’t erase.” - Justin Vernon
November 2011
6 posts
Control and Poise
Since August, I have been trying to think more judiciously about the food that I eat, both in type and quantity. I no longer eat pasta or bread, eat much dairy, I don’t eat a lot of red meat, I’ve cut out chocolate and sweet things and for a time I also cut out alcohol. Some of these things are more difficult to sustain than others. Drinking is hard, or at least, not drinking is hard,...
September 2011
5 posts
12.09.2011
I was going to start a blog and then I realised that I already had one.
I have just this second realised that the reason why I don’t blog is because I rarely have anything to say. I’d like to say something conversational or share with you a wittiscm from my day, but surely I wouldn’t have to dig around in my brain for that information if I really wanted to share it.
I would...
I keep thinking about femininity and graciousness.
In the city that I live in, the girls, women, don’t seem to respect themselves. I didn’t grow up in the nicest place and being crass and brutal was sometimes expected rather than abhorred. As I’ve grown older and away from people of that ilk and had time to consider the type of person I want to be and the things about myself I...
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My favorite Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle story
themaraudingtimelord:
Conan-Doyle once sent an anonymous letter to ten of his friends which read ‘We are discovered, flee at once’ as a joke. One of his friends disappeared and was never heard from again.
August 2011
7 posts
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf (via funeral)
“…Like a dark cathedral city,
Whose spires, and domes, and towers
Quiver in...”
– George Meredith, from “When I Would Imagine” (via aubade)
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
10 posts
Bony
adjective
his pale, bony face: gaunt, angular, skinny, thin, lean, spare, spindly, skin-and-bones, skeletal, emaciated, underweight; informal like a bag of bones; rare starveling, macilent, gracile. ANTONYMS plump.
Opportunity
opportunity |ˌäpərˈt(y)oōnitē| noun ( pl. -ties)
a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French opportunite, from Latin opportunitas, from opportunus (see opportune ).
I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendos, the blackbird whistling or just after.
- Wallace Stevens
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
12 posts
Last night I made a point of identifying the most handsome man in the room and ensuring that I made myself his equal by the end of the night by introducing myself without being afraid.
I did introduce myself and I found him very interesting and kind and we had a nice conversation going before one of his friends started asking about his girlfriend. Her intention was to put me on my guard of...
uncharacteristic sleep.
i pace between the walls of his heart, a soft touch on the left, a breath on the right. I do sleep. It costs me.
“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
The Apologist.
I’m trying to move away from the person I was becoming. New life, new tumblr !
Sometimes it seems as though I’m ageing in small increments, not year by year as you would expect but by knowledge and experience. 3 months ago I was I was a different person to the one I am today. Just like being 18 made me realise how silly I was at 14, at 20 how I suddenly felt like I ought to be a...