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C, V.

  • “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
  • This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities,
  • for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden
  • which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast,
  • to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
  • _____
  • “But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

Satisfactory

  • Farriers cleaning hooves
  • Mood changing nail polish
  • Ole Munch—A man is grateful.
  • Grilled pitted olives from TJ
  • Antipasto salad // https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/antipasto-salad-recipe FUCKKKK
  • Utah kid taping fish to ATMs // https://www.huffapost.com/entry/provo-teen-taping-fish-to-atms_n_65b13f22e4b0f55c6e31dca8
  • Anchorite // anchoress
  • Caroline Schlegel
  • John Locke // Locked Room Theory // Rust
  • Leo from Romeo & Juliet during the aquarium-yellow-tang scene, muah
  • JW Francis—I want a poem that will remind me what to do with myself.
  • The Sound of Metal // Darius Marder

Misc., Maudlin

  • Black citron; music
  • https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1134061488
  • Value cards
  • Grab bags
  • Candide Voltaire
  • Plastic wrapped food

Allies

  • Rebecca
  • Christine Baskets
  • Gene Wilder
  • A bear
  • Not the tv from poltergeist

Arts recommend by KL

  • My Brilliant Friend
  • https://euppublishingblog.com/2019/10/04/an-interview-with-michelle-devereaux-author-of-the-stillness-of-solitude-romanticism-and-contemporary-american-independent-film/
  • Slavoj Zizkek
  • Song of the Achilles // Madeline Miller
  • I dated a guy who wrote a beautiful song called albarino wine lol
  • Phillip Weinrobe
  • Tinhouse workshops
  • Vienna
  • The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
  • The Magic Toyshop
  • Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale

Sometimes I do

  • I'm Glad My Mother Died // Jeanette McCurdy
  • Magnificient Rbels // Andrea Wulf
  • Ripe // Sarah Rose Etter
  • In Memoriam // Alice Winn
  • Lapvona // Ottessa Moshfegh
  • The Perfect Nanny // Leïla Slimani
  • The Plague // Albert Camus
  • Wabi-Sabi // Leonard Koren