December 2009
“I’ve always had a sense that the best is over really, even when I was 16.”
– Alan Bennett
dialogues:
Birth Waltz - Birth
ALLMAN BROTHERS - Little Martha
“I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness. And it’s big...”
– Max in “Where The Wild Things Are”
I like the way you destroy stuff. There's a spark...
I've fallen out of favor and I've fallen from...
jegvilheteothilie: Florence + The Machine
“Ich glaube selbst die Arme ausgestreckt könnte ich den Himmel nicht berühren.”
– Sappho
“Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken of as though it...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“Once I loved a man who was a lot like the desert, and before that I loved the...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“He was among the first, and the first to come back and tell the tale of...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“There is no distance in childhood: for a baby, a mother in the other room is...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“For children, it’s the distance that holds little interest. Gary Paul...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“The Wintu in north-central California, who don’t use the words left and...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“For Woolf, getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“My skills are not notable, but I never seem to do more than flirt with getting...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“I went looking for their tales of being lost and found that being off course for...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“Children seldom roam, even in the safest places. Because of their parents’...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
“There’s an art of attending to weather, to the route you take, to the...”
– Rebecca Solnit in “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”
Excerpts from 'Woman From Child' by Sappho...
The air’s misty with imminent sleep. This way there comes a timely girl with scented breasts. She’s full of gossip. I don’t ignore the girl with the beautiful voice. I want that girl to make love to me. There’s more music in her voice than in all our instruments. We must drive away the ones that come without flowers. With another girl who loves girls. I compete for the love...
A Ring by Sappho
Silly woman. Yes, it is a ring, but really, don’t be so proud.
The Blast of Love by Sappho
Like a mountain whirlwind punishing the oak trees love shattered my heart.
Sappho says:
Death is our evil. The gods believe this or else by now they would be dead.
To A Friend by Sappho
When I look at you, it is not Hermione I think of: a mortal girl, but I am moved as before the beauty of blond Helen.