2009

July 18, 2026

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

There's a method of growing rhubarb called "forcing" where it's raised in total darkness and tended to in brief intervals of candlelight. The plant thrives only because it's looking for an absnet sun, and extends to fast you can hear the growing pains. Forcing can weaken the crop but if done correctly can yield a sweeter, more desirable result. Not everything needs to be an allegory. All the same, I am aware that there are things that have happened in my formative years that I have no words to describe and that only God's eyes have seen.]

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16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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