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oscar wilde after prison: everything that happens to me is symbolic and irrevocable. i am dying beyond my means

djuna barnes in silence: she spent most of her time failing to write, and yet whatever little she wrote (in the context of her large life) lingers. that's oddly inspiring.

nabokov in raptures: moving and artificial books, unread letters, dostoevsky the cheap sensationalist, dr freud the medieval viennese quack, and it's all for véra