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"You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Serbia, in Poland, even in Russia, the superstition, so we must call it, of the Vampire."

omg my loser. My one handed Grisken Teensy with the spectacle monocule. The one and only, Gary Grisken.

ogs from 2017 vvvv

"There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it."

"One day," you said to me "I watched the sunset forty-four times." And a little later you added: "You know...one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."