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"As soon as we die, we enter into fiction. Just ask two different family members to tell you about someone recently gone, and you will see what I mean. Once we can no longer speak for ourselves, we are interpreted."
— Hilary Mantel, from Reith Lectures, Resurrection: The Art and Craft
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Trista Mateer, from Aphrodite Made Me Do It; “Personal reflections on gender”
[Text ID: “sucking the dirt out from under your own nails just to taste where you came from / without ever having to go back there”]
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Kawase Hasui, Moon at Magome from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo, 1930, woodcut on paper
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sleepy girl takes "worst nap ever" wakes up at ungodly hour in a nauseous sweat
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What are these creatures? Arctic ribbon seals. Bizarre and beautiful, yes?
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