February 2012
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“You were last seen walking through a field of pianos. No. A museum of mouths. In...”
– “new york craigslist > personals > missed connections,” Megan Falley (via clavicola)
I have had class at 9 AM (Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays) or 10 AM (Mondays & Wednesdays) every day of the week for both years of university so far.
Considering the fact that I’m a giant slacker with a slacker major, I feel as though this is my greatest and most profound failure.
The Tired Mermaid by Matthea Harvey →
The Tired Mermaid wishes for once her horoscope would just read: hungover today, stay in bed. Instead it feeds her false futures and she starts each new day expecting to finally shine up her trident or compose a ship-sinking shanty. Too much Chianti and none of these things get done. The sun is a blade in the eye that hurts her seaweedy head and doesn’t help her stomach, roiling with bits of...
I really hate being forced to see a therapist/counselor. I never know how to answer the extremely broad questions they ask. I genuinely don’t know the answers to what they want to know, or feel it is more complicated than what they’re implying and can’t give them something specific like what they want. I usually feel interrogated and just want them to stop asking me things, so I...
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That the cliche ‘I don’t know who I am’... →
That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place, and, like, hurt. That you will become less concerned with what other people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That other...
authenticity (philosophy) →
jesuisperdu:
Authenticity is a technical term in existentialist philosophy, and is also used in the philosophy of art and psychology. In philosophy, the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external forces, pressures and influences which are very different from, and other than, itself. Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to...
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WEAK, MESSY, INTRUSIVE, FEELINGS-Y FEELINGS
I want to be able to write how I feel, and I want it to be clever and interesting and funny and rewarding and beautiful. A lot of the time, I wish I just felt something. Or felt less. I hate having to think about ideas themselves, about how elusive and my thoughts are. I wish my ideas were more crystalline, that I could think of every single thing and subject and object as an individual,...
“I never, ever felt innocent in the way I think you mean. I never felt open in...”
– Morrissey
This is actually one of the worst problems in my life. I genuinely don’t understand how other people just un-selfconsciously assume everyone wants to be around them, or expect people to like them.
Thinking makes me so sad.
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magical realism →
jesuisperdu:
Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction [1] in which magical elements blend with the real world. The story explains these magical elements as real occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the “real” and the “fantastic” in the same stream of thought. It is a film, literary and visual art genre.
One example of magic realism is...