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In New Orleans in June the air is heavy with sex and death, not violent death but death by decay, overripeness, rotting, death by drowning, suffocation, fever of unknown etiology. The place is physically dark, dark like the negative of a
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“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
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“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Sula
― Sula
“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
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Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
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“And that's why i have to go back
to so many places
there to find myself
and constantly examine myself
with no witness but the moon
and then whistle with joy,
ambling over rocks and clods of earth,
with no task but to live,
with no family but the road.”
―
to so many places
there to find myself
and constantly examine myself
with no witness but the moon
and then whistle with joy,
ambling over rocks and clods of earth,
with no task but to live,
with no family but the road.”
―
josephine’s 2025 Year in Books
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