Market Chipping

I trode on the toad road

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Piranesi but it definitely wasn’t to get hit with one of the most beautifully depicted settings I have ever read. The world of this novel is gorgeous. Specifically, how Piranesi sees it is gorgeous. Page after page of detailed notes about the tides and the wildlife and the many, many statues and how beautiful all of it is. I can smell the salty sea air. I can hear the cries of the gulls echoing through the halls. I can see sunlight slanting through a window and gleaming on white marble and foamy water.