“You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.”
– Margaret Atwood, Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing.
Not the norm on my blog, but how can you deny that?
reading
“Darling, all night/I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.” – Sylvia Plath, Fever 103°.
Patrick Hoelck
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.“ – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin.
I watched these a few months back. It was hilarious. And awkward because I watched them with someone. But this is really interesting and I hope everyone watched them one day.
Oh my God, Stoya was the first one on the project and hers is so cute!!!
Craftsmate.
We’re taking that class together next semester.
Let’s make the readings more interesting.
“Every man winds up with the horse that suits him.” – Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain.
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.“ – Roberto Bolaño.
“Oh, I was young, then, and I walked in my body like a queen.” – Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies.
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” – Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star.
Sorry, I just need to interrupt the sexy to say:
Yes. It is okay. It is so okay. It is so very, very okay. What’s not okay is banning a freaking book.
Works like Candide, Animal Farm and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy were some of my favorites in high school and, with the exception of the last title, were parts of the curriculum of courses I took.
So, rock on, kiddo. Because no library should be illegal.
“Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.