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Music typewriter from 1936.

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mother night, kurt vonnegut

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Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics to Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

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Octavia E. Butler's must-read masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on July 20, 2024.

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Octavia Butler's notes to herself

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“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it.”

— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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I like when a friendship feels like a collaboration. I’m drawn to memorialising and documentation. My impulse is always to build a body of work. I laugh almost exclusively at in-jokes and references, quantify my closeness with people by the extent to which we’ve developed our own private language. I try to reign this in around moment-to-moment sort of people, but when someone else is like me, it’s like a new universe exploding outwards

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Tony Hoagland, from “Dickhead”, Donkey Gospel

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies