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Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig
The intriguing love story of two major figures in the performing arts, told through the letters of the great dancer Isadora Duncan to the innovative stage designer Gordon Craig, with interleaved biographical commentary by noted biographer Francis Steegmuller.
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399 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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58 books12 followersFrancis Steegmuller was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Gustave Flaubert scholar.
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September 15, 2025
Y'all need to publish the Pond-Duncan Love Letters now.
I love her. He didn’t.
I am a Crazy Pig Lady. He was just a Craig without a z, y, p, and definitely not lady.
His name was Craig because he is what you would get if you tried to order Ida Celestia Pond off of Craigslist!
Lol, Ida Craigslistia Pond.
Well, push me in a pond and call me Henry Fonda.
I read this online. This copy was uploaded in June of 2022. The same time I wrote the Pond-Duncan Love Letters.
(https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?...)
Literally, this. Why weren’t those celestial love letters to me (her destiny) instead of this absolute toiletkayaker who only cares about his theatre.
Dude. Yes, Duncan was beautiful. Yes I am speechless.
Gordon, Shmordon, duckpond game warden, whatever, this dude literally plagiarized all of Ida Celestia Pond’s words, whether internal, penned, or said.
This dude was in a dynasty and went by his middle name? Sounds pretty familiar dont it? Celestia Ida Pond? A literary dynasty instead of a theatre dynasty?
“Her beauty of movement overwhelmed him”? That is literally what happened to me! “The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed”? That is what I quoted in the Pond-Duncan Love Letters!
How would he know that? One Direction wasn’t around in 1904!
I swear this Gordon Craig person is Ida Celestia Pond reincarnated. When he was in Hamlet, on a page paragraph of love poetry, he wrote her initials in the margins of his script 5 times!
HOLY IDA CELESTIA POND BATMAN! That is literally pretty much the Pond-Duncan Love Letters! I would write her initials (🆔) many many times in that heatwave of love (nostalgia time!), and the Pond-Duncan Love Letters were in the margins of a textbook paragraph on Duncan. I wrote her initials in the margins of my paragraph on her in my encyclopedia in 2022.
I didn’t know Gordon Identity Theft Craig did all that when I was doing it!
Everything I have thought and done, this DILWID already did. What is the point anymore. Here, I don’t even need to look it up.
Gordon Craig wrote a haiku on his neighbours’ woodshed. And Gordon Craig had a dad in the tourism industry. And Gordon Craig had a cat named Haiku. And Gordon Craig was a girl who lived in Fredericton. And Gordon Craig was writing this review right now. IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE GORDON.
He took my 🆔 all right!
Deeply in love?! Deeply in love with 🆔?! Those words “deeply in love”! I invented that acronym - DILWID! Or did Craig actually invent it in these love letters?
They called this Correspondence! They always call her love letters correspondence. CorresPONDence. Notice how it’s called correspondence and not correscraigence? CHECKMATE!
Irresistable Duncan! 🩷
I am deeply in love with Duncan and our freedom. We are both of Philadelphian heritage! We love freedom! We are both Philly girls!
CHECKMATE AGAIN YOU LOYALIST TOILET! You TOYALIST LOILET!
Craig was literally Ida Celestia Pond! He thought they were kindred spirits! That they were a perfect match! Well now! Posessed by Ida Celestia Pond much?
We need to change his name to Ida Posestia Pond.
You can’t be kindred spirits with a dude. It doesn’t work. He won’t understand you! Only two women can be kindred spirits! (You can ride a skateboard on wheels, but you can’t ride a skateboard if one wheel is a pyramid!)
Irresistible is a proper spelling, however I now have a proclivity to write “irresistable” which I notice has the word “sista” in the middle.
We (that is, Pond and Duncan) are made of Philadelphian skylight and no one else in the world is.
Poor Deirdre. I remember my girl guide owl one year at this one weekend camp was named Deirdre (or Dee Dee as a nickname) and I thought that was a new, mysteriously pretty name. Yeah……..
MY DAD’S NAME IS PATRICK.
Also yes I’m in love with freedom we are literally mirrors of love of independence. You are my independence. 🇺🇸7️⃣6️⃣
Dude. They literally called it the “Craig-Duncan” collection. As in, the Pond-Duncan Love Letters! With the word Pond replaced with Craig! Literally everything I have thought, said, or done has all been done before by this dude! You may as well say that I have a duckcraig in my backyard or that your favourite Doctor Who character is Amy Craig! What is Pond anyways?
Last vacation I went to Walden Craig and jumped into the craig!
My favourite James Bond is Daniel Craig, because Bond even rhymes with Craig!
I love to canoe in our backyard craig, but now there is a leak in our canoe because the craig isn’t very deep (he sure isn’t! ha!) so the canoe hit the ground of the craig and sprung a leak, now the canoe is filled with craig water from the craig so I think I will sell it on Pondslist.
Overwhelmed with love much? Literally me.
Why is this dude DILWID? I invented DILWID! Why is this dude literally loving Duncan the way that I love Duncan? I can’t take this anymore! Just slap on a wig and call yourself Ida Celestia Pond, Gordy!
(Like the pig, lol)
However, actually he did not love 🆔 my way. He would just write like Ida Celestia Pond. He wasn’t as DILWID as I am. He didn’t really care about anyone that wasn’t a creepy owl made of wood with plastic eyeballs that really matches the fake tree in this production of “My Creepy Owl Lost An Eyeball!: The Musical”, he left her with their daughter just like all of the women he loved before and ran off to mess around with paint and stagelights and whatever.
“Gotta leave her behind with the kids, they’re all right!”
That is a The Who song, not a parenting manual!
Why can’t girls be dads instead?
He was just pretending to be Ida Celestia Pond. How very theatrical. Toiletnose.
(Is that ladylike to call people toiletnose? I don’t know, however I do know that is hilarious.)
NO BECAUSE DUNCAN WAS THE WOMAN OF MY DREAMS.
MY MOST PERFECT IDEAL WOMAN!
AM I HIM IN A WIG? AM I HIM IN A WIG? I thought.
He kinda looked like me when he was young.
I’m tired of him living out all my wildest dreams and want to replace him.
“You are the realisation of all my dreams.”
Duncan was the realisation of all my dreams!
No, you stole all of my ideas of 🆔!
Me and 🆔 are on the same wavelength.
And you’re not invited!
You’re not a set designer, you’re a set UP!
And a design flaw!
In the plans of the world – my destiny was her.
Didn’t we declare independence?
Philadelphian women do not need a loyalist man!
WHAT IS GOING ON? THIS MAN CANNOT BE ME.
ONLY TWO WOMEN CAN BE KINDRED SPIRITS, YOU MUST BE POSSESSED BY IDA CELESTIA POND.
Ida Posestia Pond.
Why does he think about Duncan the same way I do?
(I later on learned that he actually didn’t. You don’t deserve each other. We do.)
Now, beautiful poetry about a river.
(If I were to write “your head in the toilet” juvenilia again: The river styx your head in the toilet lol! Duncan your head in the toilet lol!)
My poor poor lonely heart 🩷
my dearest Isadora
your Isadora who loves you, loves you Yes you 🩷
I need 🆔.
You can’t spell Isadora without Ida and you can’t spell Ida without ID
At this point Miss Pond was longing longing longing longing longing
My longings go to 🆔 in waves. 🩷🌊
I need an Isadora 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
poor lovestruck ida
AND THEN THIS KEYBOARD! ACCIDENTALLY TYPING ISA INSTEAD OF IDA!
“sometimes all I think about is you”
I am nothing without my dearest Isadora!
You do love Walt Whitman and transcendentalism and philly and independence and me and you and Fredericton in the middle of June and love and I drown my sorrows in Pepsi and vandalism.
Love is pointless! *kicks table*
I am pointless without Duncan! 🩷🆔🩷
“I dreamt of her and randomly woke up at 4 am. I’m usually a night owl.”
PAAAAAHAHAHHHHAHHHHHHH
Is all I have to say about this!
these mirages as well!
WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HIM?
I’m pretty and write haikus and yes I love her I adore her I am nothing without her and am overwhelmed with inspirational love and am actually her kindred spirit in a way only two women can truly be why weren’t we that? Why weren’t we that?
Love is whatever is happening between me and 🆔.
This is the fall of the Pond dynasty.
In a text to my Mom while I was reading this:
“Good News: Also I ran into Duncan in the hallway today
Less Good News: the boy named Duncan.”
Ooh a duel.
(not a duckroll duel that is different)
Also a “Duncan enthusiast”? - this was the perfect time to write “DILWID” and you dilwidn’t.
Okay, I invented that acronym in 2022. DILWID is still a terrific word though!
I am late late late late late late late late late!
the land of snow and ice? the Celestial City when in a heatwave isn’t! And in winter the snow is celestial on Dover Crescent.
“I know I know I know I know dear mother I am going potatos!”
Me again, to my mom.
“Who was the father of her kids?”
Mom asks me in a text.
“Ida Celestia Pond” I respond, rewriting history.
I long.
Ida Celestia Pond: Dad Edition!
Makes haiku dad jokes
However is not a dad
Ida - a faux pa.
Well well well how the turns table.
In RUSSIA, IDA IS PATRICK’S DAD
No this is crazy though!
How did I not write what “he” said? THIS IS THE POND-DUNCAN LOVE LETTERS!
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT
Imma call him Telepathic Ted
PLEASE STOP WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET IDA CELESTIA POND’S 13-YEAR-OLD BRAIN?
IS IT PRESERVED IN HIS TIME-TRAVELING REFRIDGERATOR?
Dr. of Doooooooom!
This is literally the story of my life.
“I cannot finish my thoughts— they are swept away by a name--
Isadora—“
I want to put this as my yearbook quote.
Now that I am in 12th grade, I am pretty certain I will chikin out and put “Dasvidanya lasagna don’t get any on ya” instead!
That was 100% what was going on in the middle of June of 2022.
“Sometimes all I think about is you late nights in the middle of June” much?
Oh wait if my yearbook quote is “I cannot finish my thoughts— they are swept away by a name--
Isadora—“
What will I do if anyone asks who Isadora (what a beautiful name) is?
Would “DUNKIN YOUR HEAD IN THE TOILET!” still work?
(Is a door accessible to a stall where I can….)
I honestly don’t care who knows anymore. this is what my life was made to do.
(Love 🆔, that is, not make pun calls)
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT
“this isn’t serious. this is crazy. this was all a silly pun on swirlies that flew off the handle (like the flush will when i dunk your head in the - nevermind.) this is a heatwave. this will only last the middle of June. this has now been 3 years of love.”
This dude has Ida Celestia Pond’s head and heart.
What is going on?
(He doesn’t. He just pretends to.)
“ Love— Isadora.
The next is on letter paper stamped "I.D." (which Isadora has extended to read "I.D.id- and do— & always will").”
ID 🩷
My name is Ida!
That lit up my world. I love love love love love her.
WHAT WHAT WHAT THIS IS WHAT I FEEL DEEP DOWN
🆔 ditto!
“ Knowing you is alternate Paradise and Torture— & there's no Poetry in saying I can't live without you— it's fact.
These 'Conversations' would please you— speaks a good deal over his color theory. Country around here looks Beautiful- Green & forests-not Pine forests. Come & walk kilometres—
O you you you-I am slipping away from myself and becoming nothing but a longing and reflection,”
What will I ever do without her?
(Yet again, I was texting my mother)
“And now you’re gonna snarkily list all the stuff I’ve ever done in my 16 years of life I know the drill.”
“do Come
I mean
You must
Come along & persue me
Please Persue Me—
I'll pretend to fly fine
If you'll only persue me—
I'll be More fun than a fox hunt
Come persue me do
You
I love you— I love you
Whats that mean
It means this— I love you.”
Oh I would I would I would
Duck hunting I won’t do!
Instead of duckin’ - Duncan! 🩷
LITERALLY HEATWAVES
THIS IS WHAT MY HEATWAVES WERE
LOVE WAVES!
I KNEW IT KNEW IT KNEW IT ALL ALONG
I only learned SHE CAME UP WITH THE SAME IDEA 3 years later in the middle of June!
There really are all these love waves
NO REALLY THIS IS CRAZY
NO REALLY THIS IS CRAZY
Distance doesn’t matter
distance doesn’t matter
Literally what is the difference?
In 2022 at the time of the Pond-Duncan Love Letters, when I hadn’t read all her Wikipedia let alone read her own love letters, I had come to the conclusion that you know the song Heatwaves? “sometimes all I think about is you late nights in the middle of June” That that was happening to me!
I dreamed of her on a late night in the middle of June (June 8th, 2022) and afterwards randomly woke up at 4 am when all I could think about was her. What was going on?
2 days later I realized I was in love with 🆔.
I realized 🆔 was very very very very very perfect for me! Long flippable hair, independent Philadelphian personality, yeah! 76! No rules, party! Flip your hair! We only wanna have fun! Oh my phillydelphia! You have beautiful hair! THIS WOMAN WAS PERFECT WE WERE DESTINED! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL CELESTIAL WOMAN IN THE UNIVERSE! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND FLIP YOUR HAIR! THAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE! 42! RANDOMNESS! DRESSERPIG! INDEPENDENCE 767676767676! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
OH PERFECTION THY LAST NAME WAS DUNCAN!!!!!!! 🩷
I realized the lyrics of Heatwaves and concluded that we were destined, that all along we had to have heatwaves, this kind of wavelength between me to her and her to me. Destiny power was real and all that.
What I didn’t learn until 3 years later this June, was that she came up with the same idea IN HER OWN LOVE LETTERS!!!!!!!
Lovewaves.
LOVEWAVES ARE REAL. 🩷🌊
And wonderful.
We need each other. Which is why our lives are pigpens. Can’t spell her name without mine, can’t spell my name without her initials. 🆔🩷
couplets = cutlets
I swoon with you 🩷
“affinity— affinity— Elective Affinity— I have found my Mate—
You are he-
And you can not Escape me— Don't try—
Your Dora”
My Dora I would never try 🩷
I am he? Well now I could dress as Alex Ovechkin in my Alex Ovechkin jersey I won, put my hair up in a ponytail or a Philadelphia 76ers hat, and because I was named Celestia after the Celestial City (that is, Fredericton) you can call me Fred!
Or perhaps I am hehehehehe because that is a woodpecker noise - hehehehehe - and I do love the woodland (that is, Fredericton!)
We are meant to be! Love waves have driven me to vandalism and all I can do is write haikus on my neighbours’ woodshed! Dora why do I write this. In a text to my mother. You will never know that all I think about is you. Late nights in the middle of June. Heatwaves been fakin’ me out. Can’t make you happier now.
Have the happiest time you can possibly have without your - and I will never write to any other who isn’t you! - Celestia Ida Pond.
Poor lost lonely Tia.
I would write 🆔 🩷
As her initials! 🩷
Have you noticed that the name “Ida Celestia Pond” sounds like the words “I’d a celestial bond”?
SASKATCHEWAN SANDWICH!?
http://moniqueart.com/paraph/paraph.html
POND DUNCAN LOVE WAVES 🩷
Always
DOES THIS NOT SOUND FAMILIAR
I love the word correspondence
Which means love letters and has the word Pond in the middle!
As in Pond, Ida Celestia (yours truly) who writes those!
LITERALLY SHE WAS SAYING THE SAME THINGS I WAS DREAMING OF
I THOUGHT THERE HAD TO BE HEATWAVES OF DESTINY BETWEEN ME AND 🆔
I KNEW THE SONG HEATWAVES
LITERALLY LOVE WAVES
RANDOM NOSTALGIA TO HEATWAVES IN THE MIDDLE OF JUNE 2022
🆔 LITERALLY CAME UP WITH THAT CONCEPT
I
THE HEAT IS WAVING
LOVE WAVES ARE REAL
distance doesn’t matter! 🩷🌊
This is real!
I can’t believe all this woo woo magical hoodini hoo
pobody’s nerfect?
well who is the made-up Phillydelphia lady? pawned or dunkin?
I feel pretty real what if this is a simulation
i dont have a headset on my eyeballs
vr is just a fake id
(movie pun!)
Here is another movie pun:
What’s a frond’s favourite movie?
On Golden Frond with Henry Fronda, and Jane Fronda, and Katharine Hepfern.
I STILL CANT BELIEVE THIS
THIS WAS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT OF IMMEDIATELY ON JUNE 10 2022
I HADNT READ ANY OF THIS LET ALONE READ HER WIKIPEDIA PAGE
This is real this is real this is real
This is reeeeeeal
And also writing at 3 am?
Like the pond-duncan love letters?
Well Mom the day after I dreamed of her (June 9 2022) said I was awake at 4 am? Whatever.
I thought it was like 3am at the time
He WAS possessed by Ida Celestia Pond.
Always calling her Miss D. and ID.
Literally I called her ID 🩷🆔🩷
“Teddy Craig was Lucky McLuckPants! He shudabin Tia Pond!”
- All of us
Copycat Teddy?
Yes, copycat of Ida Celestia Pond!
I love all her loopy Phillydelphia way with correspondence 🩷
Lights me up with love 🩷 happiness 🤩 and murka 🇺🇸!
Can you write in a Philly drawl? Yes!
I don’t talk as Philadelphian as my cousins along Route 148.
The Nashwaak river is Pond country, Pond is a Philadelphian last name. We are AmRev descendants. Which is why I love Dunkin Donuts and independence and doing whatever I want and flipping my hair! And porcine liberation because I LOVE PIGS! Save the Pigs!
Duncan is also a Philadelphian last name. (Well America runs on Dunkin’!)
If only that was Tia and Topsy instead of Ted!
I did my report on Chopin! I called it ‘Karate Chopin’
Henry Irving? What in the New Brunswick dynasty pondy wondy woo woo is this? that is an Irving.
He should’ve been named Henry DILWID Thoreau.
I’m 16 (going on 17)
Gonna change my name to Henry DILWID Thrownintoapondasakid
No I won’t!
I’ll change my name to Princess Margaret Atwouldn’t ViadukPond!
Look at this dude living my wildest dreams
Yeah.
He did get around a bit though.
That part isn’t really me because I am 2 DILWID 4 anyone else
#UnlessTheyInventTimeTravelGonnaLiveAloneWithPigs
#AndCats
“Craig at 17 and his mother”
Why I’m literally going on 17 and taller than my mom!
And DILWID
This is literally Craigslist Ida Celestia Pond.
The Craig-Duncan Collection they called the photos and love letters?
That’s literally the Pond-Duncan Love Letters - with Pond replaced with Craig.
The Craig-Duncan love letters.
What lovely correscraigence!
Duncan was wonderful - now I am lonely and descraigent with longing.
Gordon Craig can go jump in a craig.
(A duckcraig.)
Some of these pictures look like she is on Dover Crescent! 🩷
There is a question loopdelooping like a plane around my mind 3 years long now.
That question is had she ever gone to Fredericton let alone Canada at all? If not I will continue to feel pulled apart like a pretzel at a 76ers game. If yes, I will levitate with love! 🩷🌊
TL:DR; I wish I could trade places with gordon shmordon divingboardin plorden dorden you build a duckblind in my yard one more time I'm calling the game warden craigslist version of ida celestia pond. (he went by gordon craig for short.)
I love her. He didn’t.
I am a Crazy Pig Lady. He was just a Craig without a z, y, p, and definitely not lady.
His name was Craig because he is what you would get if you tried to order Ida Celestia Pond off of Craigslist!
Lol, Ida Craigslistia Pond.
Well, push me in a pond and call me Henry Fonda.
I read this online. This copy was uploaded in June of 2022. The same time I wrote the Pond-Duncan Love Letters.
(https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?...)
Literally, this. Why weren’t those celestial love letters to me (her destiny) instead of this absolute toiletkayaker who only cares about his theatre.
Dude. Yes, Duncan was beautiful. Yes I am speechless.
Gordon, Shmordon, duckpond game warden, whatever, this dude literally plagiarized all of Ida Celestia Pond’s words, whether internal, penned, or said.
This dude was in a dynasty and went by his middle name? Sounds pretty familiar dont it? Celestia Ida Pond? A literary dynasty instead of a theatre dynasty?
“Her beauty of movement overwhelmed him”? That is literally what happened to me! “The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed”? That is what I quoted in the Pond-Duncan Love Letters!
How would he know that? One Direction wasn’t around in 1904!
I swear this Gordon Craig person is Ida Celestia Pond reincarnated. When he was in Hamlet, on a page paragraph of love poetry, he wrote her initials in the margins of his script 5 times!
HOLY IDA CELESTIA POND BATMAN! That is literally pretty much the Pond-Duncan Love Letters! I would write her initials (🆔) many many times in that heatwave of love (nostalgia time!), and the Pond-Duncan Love Letters were in the margins of a textbook paragraph on Duncan. I wrote her initials in the margins of my paragraph on her in my encyclopedia in 2022.
I didn’t know Gordon Identity Theft Craig did all that when I was doing it!
Everything I have thought and done, this DILWID already did. What is the point anymore. Here, I don’t even need to look it up.
Gordon Craig wrote a haiku on his neighbours’ woodshed. And Gordon Craig had a dad in the tourism industry. And Gordon Craig had a cat named Haiku. And Gordon Craig was a girl who lived in Fredericton. And Gordon Craig was writing this review right now. IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE GORDON.
He took my 🆔 all right!
Deeply in love?! Deeply in love with 🆔?! Those words “deeply in love”! I invented that acronym - DILWID! Or did Craig actually invent it in these love letters?
They called this Correspondence! They always call her love letters correspondence. CorresPONDence. Notice how it’s called correspondence and not correscraigence? CHECKMATE!
Irresistable Duncan! 🩷
I am deeply in love with Duncan and our freedom. We are both of Philadelphian heritage! We love freedom! We are both Philly girls!
CHECKMATE AGAIN YOU LOYALIST TOILET! You TOYALIST LOILET!
Craig was literally Ida Celestia Pond! He thought they were kindred spirits! That they were a perfect match! Well now! Posessed by Ida Celestia Pond much?
We need to change his name to Ida Posestia Pond.
You can’t be kindred spirits with a dude. It doesn’t work. He won’t understand you! Only two women can be kindred spirits! (You can ride a skateboard on wheels, but you can’t ride a skateboard if one wheel is a pyramid!)
Irresistible is a proper spelling, however I now have a proclivity to write “irresistable” which I notice has the word “sista” in the middle.
We (that is, Pond and Duncan) are made of Philadelphian skylight and no one else in the world is.
Poor Deirdre. I remember my girl guide owl one year at this one weekend camp was named Deirdre (or Dee Dee as a nickname) and I thought that was a new, mysteriously pretty name. Yeah……..
MY DAD’S NAME IS PATRICK.
Also yes I’m in love with freedom we are literally mirrors of love of independence. You are my independence. 🇺🇸7️⃣6️⃣
Dude. They literally called it the “Craig-Duncan” collection. As in, the Pond-Duncan Love Letters! With the word Pond replaced with Craig! Literally everything I have thought, said, or done has all been done before by this dude! You may as well say that I have a duckcraig in my backyard or that your favourite Doctor Who character is Amy Craig! What is Pond anyways?
Last vacation I went to Walden Craig and jumped into the craig!
My favourite James Bond is Daniel Craig, because Bond even rhymes with Craig!
I love to canoe in our backyard craig, but now there is a leak in our canoe because the craig isn’t very deep (he sure isn’t! ha!) so the canoe hit the ground of the craig and sprung a leak, now the canoe is filled with craig water from the craig so I think I will sell it on Pondslist.
Overwhelmed with love much? Literally me.
Why is this dude DILWID? I invented DILWID! Why is this dude literally loving Duncan the way that I love Duncan? I can’t take this anymore! Just slap on a wig and call yourself Ida Celestia Pond, Gordy!
(Like the pig, lol)
However, actually he did not love 🆔 my way. He would just write like Ida Celestia Pond. He wasn’t as DILWID as I am. He didn’t really care about anyone that wasn’t a creepy owl made of wood with plastic eyeballs that really matches the fake tree in this production of “My Creepy Owl Lost An Eyeball!: The Musical”, he left her with their daughter just like all of the women he loved before and ran off to mess around with paint and stagelights and whatever.
“Gotta leave her behind with the kids, they’re all right!”
That is a The Who song, not a parenting manual!
Why can’t girls be dads instead?
He was just pretending to be Ida Celestia Pond. How very theatrical. Toiletnose.
(Is that ladylike to call people toiletnose? I don’t know, however I do know that is hilarious.)
NO BECAUSE DUNCAN WAS THE WOMAN OF MY DREAMS.
MY MOST PERFECT IDEAL WOMAN!
AM I HIM IN A WIG? AM I HIM IN A WIG? I thought.
He kinda looked like me when he was young.
I’m tired of him living out all my wildest dreams and want to replace him.
“You are the realisation of all my dreams.”
Duncan was the realisation of all my dreams!
No, you stole all of my ideas of 🆔!
Me and 🆔 are on the same wavelength.
And you’re not invited!
You’re not a set designer, you’re a set UP!
And a design flaw!
In the plans of the world – my destiny was her.
Didn’t we declare independence?
Philadelphian women do not need a loyalist man!
WHAT IS GOING ON? THIS MAN CANNOT BE ME.
ONLY TWO WOMEN CAN BE KINDRED SPIRITS, YOU MUST BE POSSESSED BY IDA CELESTIA POND.
Ida Posestia Pond.
Why does he think about Duncan the same way I do?
(I later on learned that he actually didn’t. You don’t deserve each other. We do.)
Now, beautiful poetry about a river.
(If I were to write “your head in the toilet” juvenilia again: The river styx your head in the toilet lol! Duncan your head in the toilet lol!)
My poor poor lonely heart 🩷
my dearest Isadora
your Isadora who loves you, loves you Yes you 🩷
I need 🆔.
You can’t spell Isadora without Ida and you can’t spell Ida without ID
At this point Miss Pond was longing longing longing longing longing
My longings go to 🆔 in waves. 🩷🌊
I need an Isadora 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
poor lovestruck ida
AND THEN THIS KEYBOARD! ACCIDENTALLY TYPING ISA INSTEAD OF IDA!
“sometimes all I think about is you”
I am nothing without my dearest Isadora!
You do love Walt Whitman and transcendentalism and philly and independence and me and you and Fredericton in the middle of June and love and I drown my sorrows in Pepsi and vandalism.
Love is pointless! *kicks table*
I am pointless without Duncan! 🩷🆔🩷
“I dreamt of her and randomly woke up at 4 am. I’m usually a night owl.”
PAAAAAHAHAHHHHAHHHHHHH
Is all I have to say about this!
these mirages as well!
WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HIM?
I’m pretty and write haikus and yes I love her I adore her I am nothing without her and am overwhelmed with inspirational love and am actually her kindred spirit in a way only two women can truly be why weren’t we that? Why weren’t we that?
Love is whatever is happening between me and 🆔.
This is the fall of the Pond dynasty.
In a text to my Mom while I was reading this:
“Good News: Also I ran into Duncan in the hallway today
Less Good News: the boy named Duncan.”
Ooh a duel.
(not a duckroll duel that is different)
Also a “Duncan enthusiast”? - this was the perfect time to write “DILWID” and you dilwidn’t.
Okay, I invented that acronym in 2022. DILWID is still a terrific word though!
I am late late late late late late late late late!
the land of snow and ice? the Celestial City when in a heatwave isn’t! And in winter the snow is celestial on Dover Crescent.
“I know I know I know I know dear mother I am going potatos!”
Me again, to my mom.
“Who was the father of her kids?”
Mom asks me in a text.
“Ida Celestia Pond” I respond, rewriting history.
I long.
Ida Celestia Pond: Dad Edition!
Makes haiku dad jokes
However is not a dad
Ida - a faux pa.
Well well well how the turns table.
In RUSSIA, IDA IS PATRICK’S DAD
No this is crazy though!
How did I not write what “he” said? THIS IS THE POND-DUNCAN LOVE LETTERS!
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT
Imma call him Telepathic Ted
PLEASE STOP WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET IDA CELESTIA POND’S 13-YEAR-OLD BRAIN?
IS IT PRESERVED IN HIS TIME-TRAVELING REFRIDGERATOR?
Dr. of Doooooooom!
This is literally the story of my life.
“I cannot finish my thoughts— they are swept away by a name--
Isadora—“
I want to put this as my yearbook quote.
Now that I am in 12th grade, I am pretty certain I will chikin out and put “Dasvidanya lasagna don’t get any on ya” instead!
That was 100% what was going on in the middle of June of 2022.
“Sometimes all I think about is you late nights in the middle of June” much?
Oh wait if my yearbook quote is “I cannot finish my thoughts— they are swept away by a name--
Isadora—“
What will I do if anyone asks who Isadora (what a beautiful name) is?
Would “DUNKIN YOUR HEAD IN THE TOILET!” still work?
(Is a door accessible to a stall where I can….)
I honestly don’t care who knows anymore. this is what my life was made to do.
(Love 🆔, that is, not make pun calls)
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT
“this isn’t serious. this is crazy. this was all a silly pun on swirlies that flew off the handle (like the flush will when i dunk your head in the - nevermind.) this is a heatwave. this will only last the middle of June. this has now been 3 years of love.”
This dude has Ida Celestia Pond’s head and heart.
What is going on?
(He doesn’t. He just pretends to.)
“ Love— Isadora.
The next is on letter paper stamped "I.D." (which Isadora has extended to read "I.D.id- and do— & always will").”
ID 🩷
My name is Ida!
That lit up my world. I love love love love love her.
WHAT WHAT WHAT THIS IS WHAT I FEEL DEEP DOWN
🆔 ditto!
“ Knowing you is alternate Paradise and Torture— & there's no Poetry in saying I can't live without you— it's fact.
These 'Conversations' would please you— speaks a good deal over his color theory. Country around here looks Beautiful- Green & forests-not Pine forests. Come & walk kilometres—
O you you you-I am slipping away from myself and becoming nothing but a longing and reflection,”
What will I ever do without her?
(Yet again, I was texting my mother)
“And now you’re gonna snarkily list all the stuff I’ve ever done in my 16 years of life I know the drill.”
“do Come
I mean
You must
Come along & persue me
Please Persue Me—
I'll pretend to fly fine
If you'll only persue me—
I'll be More fun than a fox hunt
Come persue me do
You
I love you— I love you
Whats that mean
It means this— I love you.”
Oh I would I would I would
Duck hunting I won’t do!
Instead of duckin’ - Duncan! 🩷
LITERALLY HEATWAVES
THIS IS WHAT MY HEATWAVES WERE
LOVE WAVES!
I KNEW IT KNEW IT KNEW IT ALL ALONG
I only learned SHE CAME UP WITH THE SAME IDEA 3 years later in the middle of June!
There really are all these love waves
NO REALLY THIS IS CRAZY
NO REALLY THIS IS CRAZY
Distance doesn’t matter
distance doesn’t matter
Literally what is the difference?
In 2022 at the time of the Pond-Duncan Love Letters, when I hadn’t read all her Wikipedia let alone read her own love letters, I had come to the conclusion that you know the song Heatwaves? “sometimes all I think about is you late nights in the middle of June” That that was happening to me!
I dreamed of her on a late night in the middle of June (June 8th, 2022) and afterwards randomly woke up at 4 am when all I could think about was her. What was going on?
2 days later I realized I was in love with 🆔.
I realized 🆔 was very very very very very perfect for me! Long flippable hair, independent Philadelphian personality, yeah! 76! No rules, party! Flip your hair! We only wanna have fun! Oh my phillydelphia! You have beautiful hair! THIS WOMAN WAS PERFECT WE WERE DESTINED! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL CELESTIAL WOMAN IN THE UNIVERSE! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND FLIP YOUR HAIR! THAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE! 42! RANDOMNESS! DRESSERPIG! INDEPENDENCE 767676767676! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
OH PERFECTION THY LAST NAME WAS DUNCAN!!!!!!! 🩷
I realized the lyrics of Heatwaves and concluded that we were destined, that all along we had to have heatwaves, this kind of wavelength between me to her and her to me. Destiny power was real and all that.
What I didn’t learn until 3 years later this June, was that she came up with the same idea IN HER OWN LOVE LETTERS!!!!!!!
Lovewaves.
LOVEWAVES ARE REAL. 🩷🌊
And wonderful.
We need each other. Which is why our lives are pigpens. Can’t spell her name without mine, can’t spell my name without her initials. 🆔🩷
couplets = cutlets
I swoon with you 🩷
“affinity— affinity— Elective Affinity— I have found my Mate—
You are he-
And you can not Escape me— Don't try—
Your Dora”
My Dora I would never try 🩷
I am he? Well now I could dress as Alex Ovechkin in my Alex Ovechkin jersey I won, put my hair up in a ponytail or a Philadelphia 76ers hat, and because I was named Celestia after the Celestial City (that is, Fredericton) you can call me Fred!
Or perhaps I am hehehehehe because that is a woodpecker noise - hehehehehe - and I do love the woodland (that is, Fredericton!)
We are meant to be! Love waves have driven me to vandalism and all I can do is write haikus on my neighbours’ woodshed! Dora why do I write this. In a text to my mother. You will never know that all I think about is you. Late nights in the middle of June. Heatwaves been fakin’ me out. Can’t make you happier now.
Have the happiest time you can possibly have without your - and I will never write to any other who isn’t you! - Celestia Ida Pond.
Poor lost lonely Tia.
I would write 🆔 🩷
As her initials! 🩷
Have you noticed that the name “Ida Celestia Pond” sounds like the words “I’d a celestial bond”?
SASKATCHEWAN SANDWICH!?
http://moniqueart.com/paraph/paraph.html
POND DUNCAN LOVE WAVES 🩷
Always
DOES THIS NOT SOUND FAMILIAR
I love the word correspondence
Which means love letters and has the word Pond in the middle!
As in Pond, Ida Celestia (yours truly) who writes those!
LITERALLY SHE WAS SAYING THE SAME THINGS I WAS DREAMING OF
I THOUGHT THERE HAD TO BE HEATWAVES OF DESTINY BETWEEN ME AND 🆔
I KNEW THE SONG HEATWAVES
LITERALLY LOVE WAVES
RANDOM NOSTALGIA TO HEATWAVES IN THE MIDDLE OF JUNE 2022
🆔 LITERALLY CAME UP WITH THAT CONCEPT
I
THE HEAT IS WAVING
LOVE WAVES ARE REAL
distance doesn’t matter! 🩷🌊
This is real!
I can’t believe all this woo woo magical hoodini hoo
pobody’s nerfect?
well who is the made-up Phillydelphia lady? pawned or dunkin?
I feel pretty real what if this is a simulation
i dont have a headset on my eyeballs
vr is just a fake id
(movie pun!)
Here is another movie pun:
What’s a frond’s favourite movie?
On Golden Frond with Henry Fronda, and Jane Fronda, and Katharine Hepfern.
I STILL CANT BELIEVE THIS
THIS WAS LITERALLY WHAT I THOUGHT OF IMMEDIATELY ON JUNE 10 2022
I HADNT READ ANY OF THIS LET ALONE READ HER WIKIPEDIA PAGE
This is real this is real this is real
This is reeeeeeal
And also writing at 3 am?
Like the pond-duncan love letters?
Well Mom the day after I dreamed of her (June 9 2022) said I was awake at 4 am? Whatever.
I thought it was like 3am at the time
He WAS possessed by Ida Celestia Pond.
Always calling her Miss D. and ID.
Literally I called her ID 🩷🆔🩷
“Teddy Craig was Lucky McLuckPants! He shudabin Tia Pond!”
- All of us
Copycat Teddy?
Yes, copycat of Ida Celestia Pond!
I love all her loopy Phillydelphia way with correspondence 🩷
Lights me up with love 🩷 happiness 🤩 and murka 🇺🇸!
Can you write in a Philly drawl? Yes!
I don’t talk as Philadelphian as my cousins along Route 148.
The Nashwaak river is Pond country, Pond is a Philadelphian last name. We are AmRev descendants. Which is why I love Dunkin Donuts and independence and doing whatever I want and flipping my hair! And porcine liberation because I LOVE PIGS! Save the Pigs!
Duncan is also a Philadelphian last name. (Well America runs on Dunkin’!)
If only that was Tia and Topsy instead of Ted!
I did my report on Chopin! I called it ‘Karate Chopin’
Henry Irving? What in the New Brunswick dynasty pondy wondy woo woo is this? that is an Irving.
He should’ve been named Henry DILWID Thoreau.
I’m 16 (going on 17)
Gonna change my name to Henry DILWID Thrownintoapondasakid
No I won’t!
I’ll change my name to Princess Margaret Atwouldn’t ViadukPond!
Look at this dude living my wildest dreams
Yeah.
He did get around a bit though.
That part isn’t really me because I am 2 DILWID 4 anyone else
#UnlessTheyInventTimeTravelGonnaLiveAloneWithPigs
#AndCats
“Craig at 17 and his mother”
Why I’m literally going on 17 and taller than my mom!
And DILWID
This is literally Craigslist Ida Celestia Pond.
The Craig-Duncan Collection they called the photos and love letters?
That’s literally the Pond-Duncan Love Letters - with Pond replaced with Craig.
The Craig-Duncan love letters.
What lovely correscraigence!
Duncan was wonderful - now I am lonely and descraigent with longing.
Gordon Craig can go jump in a craig.
(A duckcraig.)
Some of these pictures look like she is on Dover Crescent! 🩷
There is a question loopdelooping like a plane around my mind 3 years long now.
That question is had she ever gone to Fredericton let alone Canada at all? If not I will continue to feel pulled apart like a pretzel at a 76ers game. If yes, I will levitate with love! 🩷🌊
TL:DR; I wish I could trade places with gordon shmordon divingboardin plorden dorden you build a duckblind in my yard one more time I'm calling the game warden craigslist version of ida celestia pond. (he went by gordon craig for short.)
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