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For Barthes, veiling is an essential part of eroticism. The 'most erotic portion' of a body is 'where the garment gapes', that piece of skin which flashes 'between two articles of clothing...between two edges...'. What is erotic is the 'staging of an appearance-as-disappearing'. Tear, break and gap account for the erotic... The erotic can do without truth. It is semblance, a phenomenon pertaining to the veil.

Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty (trans. Daniel Steuer)

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the voice in my head said

LOVE IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

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[...] then the voice in my head said

WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE

OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

—Frank Bidart, excerpt of "Guilty of Dust", in In the Western Night (Half-Light)

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Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

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Eve Southern by Tiffany Studios, 1929

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Anais Nïn

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books to reread in 2025 (recreationally. I need to fucking get back to myself and actually do the things I enjoy and live for. there's so little of that these days)

doctor zhivago

zauberberg

anything by nabokov

east of eden (summer)

reprisal of the annual lotr reread (because I have my copies back in one place)

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Cinnamon Girl - Lana Del Rey

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Generosa (Generous), 2013 - Luciano Ventrone (b. 1942) oil on linen  |  source:

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The Wind Rises (2013) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Porco Rosso (1992) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Whisper of the Heart (1995)

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Early Poems of William Morris

1914

Artist : Florence Harrison

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Orazio Gentileschi, The Lute Player (detail), c. 1612–1615. Oil on canvas, 100 × 74 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

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Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche as Odysseus & Penelope in The Return (2024, Uberto Pasolini)

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before sunrise (1995)

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currently reading + bedside table books :o)