“That Is The Way I Want To Write—rich And Rhythmic—heavy, Sonorous Prose That Befits Those Mythic

'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do

Lake Superior is calling, I gotta go

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

The End of the Sons of Feanor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Love as Acceptance

Caitlyn Siehl // Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" // Rumi, "Bitterweet" // trans. Anne Carson, "Euripides" // Sade Andria Zabala, "Coffee and Cigarettes" // tumblr acct @/gayassnatural // Anne Carson, "H of H Playbook" // William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116" // Clementine von Radics, "Mouthful of Forevers" // Toni Morrison, "Jazz"

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

— James Baldwin, "Untitled"

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization