a dream within a dream

Taiwan, 1999 Taitung, Taiwan. 台湾 台東市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

Tokyo, 1989 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. 日本 東京都 新宿区 西新宿 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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“I think the story presents Maria’s acute awareness of life’s uncertainty as the main reason behind her melancholy at the beginning. By the end it becomes salvation, the answer to life’s fragility. In allowing oneself to be as vulnerable and attune to the pain that loss or change might bring we are able to sincerely feel without masking or deflecting. Only in doing so can we live life to the fullest.” — reading journal entry excerpt for Banana Yoshimoto’s Goodbye Tsugumi

Ernest Bachrach - Ethel Smith (1945)

i do this to u

Emily Jungmin Yoon, "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today" from A Cruelty Special to Our Species. 

and a wickeder, wickeder, wickeder witch that never, never was

Margaret Atwood, from “Their Attitudes Differ”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

— Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl

— Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

— Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift

Paul Delaroche - The Young Martyr (1855)