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Angie C
is on page 26 of 240
“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook - fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. Under B shall come ‘Butterfly powder.’ If, in my novel, I describe the sun on the window-sill, I shall look under B and find butterfly powder. That will be useful.” (24)
“Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.” (26)
— 7 hours, 12 min ago
“Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.” (26)
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Angie C
is on page 34 of 240
“There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is rippling, all is dancing, all is quickness and triumph.” (31)
“I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.” (33)
Coherence is a (learned) trap?
— 6 hours, 29 min ago
“I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.” (33)
Coherence is a (learned) trap?
Angie C
is on page 30 of 240
in a dangerous and wild and unpredictable world, there is a comfort in (certain) fantasy, even in its violent wildness, which didacticism and the dull constancy of reality (its “profanities”) constantly contradicts (and opposes and threatens…)
when “death” becomes real and not simply the imagined end of a hero’s narrative, the soliloquy played onto the shadow of an adoring audience, what then…?
— 6 hours, 38 min ago
when “death” becomes real and not simply the imagined end of a hero’s narrative, the soliloquy played onto the shadow of an adoring audience, what then…?
Angie C
is on page 19 of 240
“Pouring down the walls of my mind, running together, the day falls copious, resplendent”
“Oh, to awake from dreaming!”
love the section on p 19 (“Everything became softly amorphous, as if the china of the plate flowed and the steel of the knife were liquid.”) Solidity is replaced by erosion.
— Mar 15, 2026 10:49AM
“Oh, to awake from dreaming!”
love the section on p 19 (“Everything became softly amorphous, as if the china of the plate flowed and the steel of the knife were liquid.”) Solidity is replaced by erosion.
Angie C
is on page 9 of 240
“I will take my anguish and lay it upon the roots under the beech trees. I will examine it and take it between my fingers.”
A conspicuous closeness which when bridged only serves to emphasize a disunity which is now an ever-fixed mark…
— Mar 13, 2026 06:02PM
A conspicuous closeness which when bridged only serves to emphasize a disunity which is now an ever-fixed mark…
