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The Bath - woman with scales has a mirror and an image of herself right beside it, she wakes up, makes herself look like the image, but she doesn’t actually show up in images until a german guy draws an x on her cheek. she’s a translator until a dead woman finds her and takes her tongue so she is only a translator for the dead woman, german guy makes her stuff out of wood, he makes her a coffin.

fascinated with Sillman’s description of painting as being doomed to work in between “hoping and grouping”

It took me at least 4 hours to get through that introduction and the corresponding notes, or I should say, mini essays

Just finished “The Dome” where entire cities are enclosed under glass domes. One of the changes is that nature, as the residents know it, is somewhat abolished. Interiority is matryoshkan, an ever-present, inescapable nesting of interior spaces inside each other. Every object is miniaturized by the vastness of the Dome. Millhauser writes, “The Rockies are a row of stones in a third-grade diorama.”

Life is so worth living right now

this is really freaking me out

I’ve been trying to get through Sontag’s essay here for 2 weeks - all fun and games when Simone is fucking an eye but now I have to lock in for Sontag 😔

HELLO?!

so close

Not me reading about Christianity and cathedrals during Eid