all roads lead to rome

Aaiún Nin, from Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems; “Tell me of the first time you were poisoned”

This is actually so real

May 8, 1922 The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923 [May 8. Would you call it a conversation if the other person is silent and, to keep up the appearance of the conversation, you try to substitute for him, and so imitate him, and so parody him, and so parody yourself. END ID]

Dmitry Khramtsov (Храм), “Eyelashes,” 2026

Kore metamorfica II, 2025 – oil on board — Agostino Arrivabene (Italian, b.1967)

He made me of rock and vermin

The Wounded Angel / Haavoittunut Enkeli (1903) by Hugo Simberg

Maria Zoccola, from a poem titled "the spartan women discuss the local waterfowl," featured in Helen Of Troy, 1993: Poems

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mr. & Mrs Holland, featured in The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[ID: October 6. Various type of nervousness. I think noises can no longer disturb me, though to be sure I am not doing any work now. Of course, the deeper one digs one’s pit the quieter it becomes, the less fearful one becomes, the quieter it becomes. END ID]

— Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This