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10 months, 3 weeks ago

food is the basis for everything for/pq

You think about it. Food is the basis for everything. Without food, it’s all over. Kaput. They don’t lie when they say you are what you eat. If you can’t get nothing to eat, you are nothing. Nothing. They also don’t lie when they say you eat to live. And you live to eat. What’s someone’s culture bu…

—p.441 I Hotel 1974: I-Migrant Hotel (423) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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10 months, 4 weeks ago

just for a second, you get this grace for/pq inspo/revelation project/rink-story

The moon. There’s no other moon like one on a clear New Mexico night. It rises over the Sandias and soothes the miles and miles of barren desert with all the quiet whiteness of a first snow. Moonlight in Liza’s yellow eyes and the chinaberry tree.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters,…

—p.174 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Strays (170) by Lucia Berlin
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11 months ago

scirocco

The sky was clear in spite of the scirocco which had been hanging over the town since morning

—p.115 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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11 months ago

dawn was beginning

Dawn was beginning, dark, hesitating, sad. It was whitening the windowpanes but left the interior of the room in darkness. One ray however, seemed to have penetrated, for the daylight breaking over the glasses on the table colored them with faint and delicate shades of blue and green. The wind was …

—p.278 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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11 months ago

sacerdotal

he took on almost a sacerdotal air

—p.220 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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