January 2010
46 posts
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger (rule of three!)
“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.”
-Franny and Zooey
Our first confidants, though the word seems excessive, are our lovers, the...
– The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Je suis comme ça. Ou j’oublie tout de suite ou je n’oublie jamais.
– Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot
taint no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
The brown waves of fog toss up to me Twisted faces from the bottom of the street, And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts An aimless smile that hovers in the air And vanishes along the level of the roofs.