Status Updates From Las olas

'"Look at life through this, look at life through that; let there be rose leaves, let there be vine leaves – I covered the whole street, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, with the blaze and ripple of my mind, with vine leaves and rose leaves."'

'"Trembling with ardour, I pretended that I was not surprised."'

'"And then not to talk. To follow the dark paths of the mind and enter the past, to visit books, to brush aside their branches and break off some fruit."'

'"There are then warm hollows grooved in the heart of the uproar; alcoves of silence where we can shelter under the wing of beauty from truth which I desire."'

2 aperol spritz in trying to read this like 😁😁😁😁🧐🧐🧐🫣🫣🫣