Status Updates From Nocturnal Apparitions: Esse...

enjoying this very much. fantastical recollections of family and villages and mental illness and the setting is so rich that i can read pages of description of just one store and still be enjoying it. tbh so many new words I have to google as well hashtag expanding my vocabulary

It would be in vain to deny that we feel a certain pounding of the heart, a blessed anxiety, the sacred nervousness that precedes final things. Soon we will run out of colours in the crucibles, and of brightness in the soul, both of which we require to lay down the highest notes, to sketch out the most luminous and transcendent outlines of this painting.

It is unforgivably reckless to send a young boy out on an urgent mission into such a night, for in its half-light the streets soon multiply, intertwine, and change places. The depths of the town open up to reveal double streets, doppelganger streets, false and misleading streets.