mixed signals

— February 24, 1918 / Franz Kafka diaries

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

by tamfarrell… 

I hope Scorpio find relationships with all the intimacy, rawness, and vulnerability they desire and sometimes need.

Osip Mandelstam (translated by Andrew Davis)

Sylvia Plath, “Tulips” from Collected Poems

— Sylvia Plath, from The Bell Jar

— Paul Guest, from “1987.”

— Cormac McCarthy, from “The Road.”

— John Steinbeck, from “The Winter of Our Discontent.”

— Darren Shan, from “Cirque du Freak.”

Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour (tr. by Richard Seaver), 1959

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1910-1913