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(You’ve chosen to not remember this part.)

— Mary Shelley (b. 30 August 1797)

forever thinking of the time i just wanted to know how long i could go without sleeping and google autofilled it to “in minecraft” without me realizing. you can imagine my shock and horror until i read the website title

Interior with Ida in a White Chair, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900

– Ahdaf Soueif, from “I Think of You,” I Think of You: Stories (Anchor Books, 2007)

Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

(State Historical Museum, Moscow)

all that remains of a former ghost town in southern manitoba. 

[text ID: I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.]