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A tale in the value of being a keeper of physical objects! After a while your copy of something could be the only evidence it ever existed at all.
Frances Wolfreston was a 17th century English woman who wrote her name and the phrase ”hor bouk” in each of the 200+ books and pamphlets in her library. The lovingly inscribed collection represents some of the only existing copies of numerous pieces of early English literature, the most famous of which being her copy of Venus and Adonis. Hers is the only first edition copy surviving to this day! Note to self to start writing my name in my books
Jun 13, 2024
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don’t know if everyone has heard of this and it’s very old news and i should be ashamed. but i found it about ten years ago, and it still my heart. it’s just an anthology of niche emotional experiences from this artist who grew up in switzerland. he collected his made-up terms into a dictionary and published it. it sparked the deepest sense of fancifulness in my preteen heart. i’ve carried certain terms with me to this day, and often return to peruse the words i love so much. one of my proudest moments was, after sharing it with a friend, sending him some of my own inspired by it. he thought they were real words and definitions from it, and i was Very pleased. it’s just fun and cool and neat. be careful to not be in a very longing mood when you go through it.
Sep 29, 2024
Just go this book, Nin is my favorite writer. Delta Venus erotica was my first book I read from her. Today I got her diary from the twenties, volume 2, to be exact. I didn’t know but there was different volumes, which are different eras of her life being written by her. I took a picture of the library checkout because it’s from my university library and it hasn’t been checked out since 2004. (Broke the streak).
Feb 6, 2024
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truly felt like reading my own journals from when I was 18, 19, but infinitely more discerning and eloquent!
“O my self, I will be sincere, sincere to you, completely sincere.”
“I will suffer; that is all. I will be strong enough.”
“I take back everything; I give up all faithfulness … I would like to live! I am going to live ... I am giving myself up; I am letting everything collapse, and I will start over again with something else. I am no longer paying attention to moral values; I am no longer seeking to do something. I want to be, to be. My beloved self, on an evening of exaltation, I promised you I would love you well.”
Jan 26, 2024
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Lately the only things I feel compelled to draw for tattoo practice are horses (and greyhounds—the horse of dogs)
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They really managed to capture a look of abject horror or disgust in each of their little faces
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