slicerdrip - Tumblr blog

[slicerdrip]

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[slicerdrip]

September 1933 The Diary of Anais Nin 1931-1934 [volume 1]

[slicerdrip]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

[slicerdrip]

I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day--spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.

Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

[slicerdrip]

September 12, 1940 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[slicerdrip]

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[slicerdrip]

_ | .

[slicerdrip]

The Death of Orpheus, 1874 by Émile Jean Baptiste Philippe Bin (French, 1825–1897)

[slicerdrip]

Nietzche, a life altering thought

[slicerdrip]

So many times I have died alone in my room

[slicerdrip]

Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024

[slicerdrip]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

[slicerdrip]

M.L.Rio, “If We Were Villains.”

[slicerdrip]

Amy Lowell, from A dome of many-coloured glass; “Before the Altar”

[Text ID: “bathed in moonlight,”]

[slicerdrip]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky; Letter to his brother 9th August 1838

[slicerdrip]

“THE BODY was found       haloed by flies—& I looked beautiful

in their thousands of eyes.              Didn’t I?”

- Michael Wasson, A Soliloquy Would Imply That the Stage Is Empty.

[slicerdrip]

August 20, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]