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Alexander McQueen Autumn / Winter 2024

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Faraway views (right lens of my binoculars)

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Leaf Insect, Rome 2021

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400 hundred year old abandoned maze in Spain.

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Illusion , Kichijoji 吉祥寺

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“Not all writing is cursed, but surely all of it is haunted. Literature is a catacomb of past readers, past writers, past books. Traces of those who are responsible for creation linger among the words on a page; Shakespeare can’t hear us, but we can still hear him (and don’t ghosts wander through those estate houses upon the moors unaware that they’ve died?). […] Of all of the forms of expression that humanity has worked with—painting, music, sculpture—literature is the eeriest. Poetry and fiction are both incantation and conjuration, the spinning of specters and the invoking of ghosts; it is very literally listening to somebody who isn’t there, and might not have been for a long while. All writing is occult, because it’s the creation of something from ether, and magic is simply a way of acknowledging that—a linguistic practice, an attitude, a critical method more than a body of spells. We should be disquieted by literature; we should be unnerved.”

— Ed Simon, from his essay “Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story”, published in The Millions, August 18, 2021

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3 CATS CLUB (site)

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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gk

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MOE magazine 2014

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BLESS Nº52 Present Continuous

100% Metal Gold

curved arrow to wear as an accessory over your shoulder

2023

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postcard c1910

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

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The Banquet, 1958 René Magritte

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SNOOPY JAPAN ARABESQUE CUP AND SAUCER SET