“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Red Doc>
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Red Doc>
“Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.”
― Autobiography of Red
― Autobiography of Red
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?”
― Glass and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?”
― Glass and God
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
―
―
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
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