a devotional for the living

attheendofthesky:

on the eve of my twentieth birthday, i went to dinner with one of my best friends, and he got me wonderful things from A bout de souffle—including vinyl—as a gift. he also wrote me a letter about the two of us. i am a big advocate of the basic premise of the thing: that you meet people and fall in love with them, that it’s messy and stupid and painful but it’s ultimately why we continue to exist in all the monotony between.

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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

as for we who love to be astonished: Beginners

In this film with Christopher Plummer, his son makes a book 
called The History of Sadness. Mother, when I say the history 
of sadness, I mean the day I was born. Tomorrow in Australia 
and Japan, I will turn twenty years old, and I have been kissed 
by two boys and three girls. When I say the history of sadness,
I mean these stones you like to place on top of my chest. In this 
play by Arthur Miller, this one character named Giles Corey is 
pressed to death on page 117. The townspeople think he’s a witch, 
or hiding a witch, or in love with a witch, so they put this board 
of wood across his chest and cover that, one by one, with heavy 
rocks, until the weight cracks his ribcage and those broken bones
puncture his lungs. Mother, when I say the history of sadness, I 
mean the light Giles Corey must’ve seen—the light says, You’re
stunning; you glimmer with the orbits of the planets and the future
of the living—when he runs out of air. Before he stops breathing. 
Mother, I mean suffocating. Mother, the light. I mean the light.

Sunday, 12 May 2013

anti-twilight:

and the outstanding heterosexual award goes to…

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
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Anonymous:
What's your opinion on puns? Btw I find your writings fascinating

they’re pynchastic

Anonymous:
whats the best thing about studying english??

bullshitting papers and then reusing them and getting As all of the times

Anonymous:
Is your user name in any way related to Hans Rosling?

nope

favorite album??

i don’t think there’s a real answer to this because favorites for me don’t exist but for emma, forever ago

 
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