~~~Always Procrastinating Something~~~Lover of Libraries (but I whine about them) Currently at work as a part-time editor and full-time eavesdropper
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Making my steady way through a substantial novel and having such mixed reactions. It’s been so long since I’ve read a “Great American Novel,” and I’m both enjoying it and also remembering all the reasons I’ve pivoted away from this Type of novel.
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June , from Months of the Year, Pink - Rory Hutton , 2023.
Scottish , b. 1980s
Linocut , 29.7 x 21.5 cm. 11¾ x 8½ in.
Edition of 25
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I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
#franz kafka#quotes#there has been a lot of lying in grass and staring at trees the past few days - it does make one feel better
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The frustration of being productive, of writing away, of taking a 20min break for lunch, and returning to find your laptop unresponsive.
#personal#and i whine#it is not by any decent measure an old laptop (mayhaps four years) but this has been occurring with increasing regularity#i miss my old doorstop of a laptop that lasted ten? twelve? weighed the same as a small child but was next to indestructible
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“Fog is not mysterious, fog is the mystery itself!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
Photo by Göran Ebenhart
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I just feel that on overcast days when you’ve gotten plenty of sleep but are still tired, one should have carte blanche to crawl back into bed. I do not want to be upright, nor productive; I wish to be half-asleep under a blanket, listening to the wind and rain through an open window.
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Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada
Japanese , b. 1975 -
Oil on canvas
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Have you ever spent fifteen years being incredibly laissez-faire about your passport, only to lose it in the confines of your own home?
#personal#i mean… it has to be here somewhere#but the irony#after YEARS of carrying it around the world without a second thought#(it’s always when things need to be renewed that they go missing)
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“When I was brought there from London to translate documents from Italian into English and to do some clerical sifting and sorting of coloured papers, there were already a number of English girls at the base doing similar things — Angelas and Hilarys and Rosemarys who had wanted to get away from Reading or Ruislip or Holland Park. For the most part these fugitive girls were in their twenties; and over them hung an immanence, a pale expectancy, as if their youth were yet to come to them.”
— The Bay of Noon, Shirley Hazzard
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“But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.”
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
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