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This was the original My Year of Rest and Relaxation

I was born to be an eccentric french nobleman

I’m just investigating ok…

“I sit in the cramped airplane seat with my legs comfortably spread, my elbows on both armrests, exuding a physical entitlement to the space I occupy. So much of heterosexual attraction is contingent on the minimization and infantilization of the female body. Crossed legs, tilted heads, widened eyes, slackened mouth. A disregard for this affect suggests that a woman’s desires lie elsewhere.“

“Love wasn’t a slumber-party with your best friend. Love was dangerous, violent with an element of something repulsive. Attraction had a permeable border with repulsion. Love had death in it, and madness. To try to escape those things was immature and anti-novelistic.”

“Part of the way of the world was that women had a tendency to go crazy. Men could bring out this tendency, but to blame the men was to take sides, to lose logic, to enter the craziness of the women, because the very content of the women’s craziness was, in large part, the blame-worthiness of the men.”

“When you get into theory, you find the flowers aren’t miles away from the photographs: they’re impressions of living things, like fossils pressed and preserved. The way an image presses itself onto a roll of film. I mean, fuck me if I can remember my early photography seminars, but that sounds about right.”foundation year:penis envy/Baudrillard/wristwatch (masculine comfort object to dispel temporal anxiety)

my mom told me to read it so i’m obeying

how can anyone be so heartless as to steal sam gribley’s peregrine falcon??

a boy without his falcon is like a body without its soul 💔

british people really don’t know how to grieve