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giggling and laughing

I’d like to thank Internet Archive’s complete access to the Gifford annotations for even making it this far…I’m currently on the ‘Proteus’ chapter with about fifteen cramped footnotes on each page. Here’s a blackout poem I made in an effort to derail myself from making any meaningful progress:
hyperborean omphalos:
a chemistry of stars —
who among us has not
sinned against the light?

elif batuman for boys

Studying for the upcoming Nolan film. No time better than being connectionless and alone on a 30-hour train ride home, after a whole week haunting my past while the judgement card marks the time of asking, plagued with tribulations (clearly I should have burned a better offering), to revisit the journey that begets all journeys for the first time since my classmates and I acted it out in middle school English class.

never before have i read a manifesto that so closely follows the shape of my own worldview as paglia’s cancelled preface to sexual personae — i too, “subscribe to a Renaissance cosmology, a divine network of correspondences, where everything is an analogy to everything else,” where “thought and feeling are simultaneous.”

Oh boy.

Terrifying and methodical.

Despite all my “sterile exercises on great subjects,” I find myself more and more suddenly within “certain evenings when the heart relaxes.” Intellectualizing your feelings is out for 2024.

Does anyone know where a gent can fill out some paperwork to report a lost bicycle?