Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another

Why dont you go watch a studio ghibli movie and think about the power of love and kindness and maybe you'll calm down

I suppose it’s a testament to Tolkien’s economy of language that the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy – interminable preamble and endless appendices and all – has a smaller total page count than the individual books of your average modern doorstopper fantasy series, yet manages to pack in such a high density of worldbuilding detail that reading it feels like it takes about a thousand years.

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musings on may

Franz Kafka Diaries, 1914-1923 | Felix Vallotton, The Dordogne with Carrenac (1925) | Vera Brittain, “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After” | Jin Xingye | Haruki Murakami, "Norwegian Wood" | Jin Xingye

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I'm tired so here's some lyrics that have been stuck in my head all day

Drip drip drop Little April shower Beating a tune As you fall all around

Drip drip drop Little April shower What can compare With your beautiful sound

 ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[text ID: In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart.]

Sage sounds just as good as it looks

Today I'm pissed because this castle is almost impossible to visit and some yatch-making scumbag company bought it for 15 million euros like its a piece of furniture.

Castello di Sammezzano, Italy.

Animals on discarded furniture

—William C. Faulkner, from As I Lay Dying