January 2010
“The wife brought the mirror and all of the fine furnishings in the cellar to her...”
I need a place in the world that would say, “you belong here.”
“Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the...”
– W.H. Auden
“Who cares?” she said impatiently. “It’s always one bloody war after another, and...”
– Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, pp. 161 (via en-joy-division)
“People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of...”
– Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only...
