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Frederick Judd Waugh, Sunlit landscape

Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)

The Ambiguity of Suffering, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena

Rome. By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Hands clutch a bag of oranges and pass a bundle of bananas across a table. They cup a round, pregnant belly, grasp a fleshy pear with two bright green leaves still attached, hold a smoking cigarette above a newspaper, and rest upon a lounging body, warmed by the midday sun. The hands in Livien Yin’s paintings frame their subjects in these moments of rest and repose—on a bed, in front of an orchard, by the beach—illuminated by the gauzy hazes of a golden light. (source)

— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

— Aracelis Girmay, from “The Piano”

The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, 2008

[text ID: It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four.]

Su Xinyu

dead poets society (1989) / the worm king’s lullaby - richard siken

“I was good, i was really good”

"NW" Zadie Smith, "the Hands of Friendship" in Yerevan (@metamorphesque). "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë (@flowerytale), Franz Kafka’s Diaries (@hungryfictions), "Summer night by the beach" Edvard Munch, "A Magic Mountain" Czeslaw Milosz (tr by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee), "Answer July" Emily Dickinson, "Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed" Vincent van Gogh, The Diaries of Franz Kafka (@shisasan)

— June 1, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries