Stealingbeauty - Musings

House of Gucci (2021)

Tonight, put on music that melts you. Slow dance with your own soul.

The Mermaid

by W.B. Yeats

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”

— The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

Adélia Prado, from “Denouement”; translated by Ellen Dori Watson

Text ID: I am beginning to despair / and can see only two choices: / either go mad or turn holy.

𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸   𝙰 𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝙻𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 & 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛: 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸–𝟷𝟿𝟻𝟹

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

When Mahmoud Darwish said, "A University degree, four books and hundereds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'."