Bleh Bleh

— Jean Valentine, “My words to you”

— Anaïs Nin

Anne Carson, from Decreation; Totality: The Colour of Eclipse.

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Virginia Woolf, dated 13 August 1919.

Albert Camus, from The First Man, as quoted in Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Any nostalgia I feel is literary. It’s not the stillness of evenings in the country that endears me to the childhood I spent there, it’s the way the table was set for tea, it’s the way the furniture was arranged in the room, it’s the faces and physical gestures of the people. I feel nostalgia for scenes. Thus someone else’s childhood can move me as much as my own; both are purely visual phenomena from a past I’m unable to fathom, and my perception of them is literary. They move me, yes, but because I see them, not because I remember them.

- Ernest Hemingway

Any nostalgia I feel is literary. It’s not the stillness of evenings in the country that endears me to the childhood I spent there, it’s the way the table was set for tea, it’s the way the furniture was arranged in the room, it’s the faces and physical gestures of the people. I feel nostalgia for scenes. Thus someone else’s childhood can move me as much as my own; both are purely visual phenomena from a past I’m unable to fathom, and my perception of them is literary. They move me, yes, but because I see them, not because I remember them.

How, just four years back in timeline, I valued my work the most and how my focus has changed from work to PEOPLE. I wonder if it has been a win situation for me or the other one.

Nicole Callihan, from Yesteryear.

- Leyla, Poem: Love Song