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Life and Lemons and Lockdown
Times are strange. Life is perplexing. Poetry remains. I've been sorting my favourites from years gone by and gathered my favourite pieces of non-DD literature (my favourite literature DDs will come in another gripping instalment, though a few may have already slipped through the net). So, if life has been giving you rotting lemons, maybe take a dip into these emerald waters? https://www.deviantart.com/comatose-comet/favourites 52 pieces, enough for one a week for a whole year, spanning over a decade of being incessantly in love with the writers on this site. I have loved re-reading these, and I hope you enjoy re-acquainting yourself with pieces you haven't read in a while or find a new gem amongst these assorted delights. In short, read and be merry (at least for a moment). XOXO Currently Reading: Dreaming in Hindi Katherine Russell Rich, Du dandysme et de George Brummell Barbey d'Aurevilly, 徐志摩詩集 Just Finished: The Valleys of the Assassins Freya Stark, Eat Pray Love
Re:wind
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If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday
Memento Mori Muriel Sparks
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Well guess who's right back where they started again? Spending time with that same old someone, living in the same place I once did when I started posting here on dA, and whiling away the hours in the same libraries under the same sun and the same sky but this time I feel different inside, more stable and happy and sure which can only be to the good.
I am writing now and then, posting now and then, proud of my work now and then, but mainly doing ot
Apricot Skies
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Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end
If Cats Disappeared from the World Genki Kawamura (transl. Eric Selland)Personal
It's been a while since I last posted a journal, and I actually have a few updates! I'm in the middle of my first-year report for my PhD which feels v stressful and also maddeningly fun, most of the time I feel like a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones sorting out the ambiguities and (forgive the pun) Chinese whispers littered throughout scholarship on Chinese history.
Writing-wise, I am in a strange state of annoyance. I want to use my little spare time to read and write, but find I'm not th
To the New Year
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"'Maria,' he said, 'I am dying in Paradise.'"
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
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Uni has started up again, and the new year has found me much changed. I'm still no longer with that someone who once took up my writing time, and in many ways still unsure how I feel about it. My mind keeps picking at the stitches of what love is, who I am, and what I want and it's more than a little distracting.
Anyone got any fun resolutions this year?
In other news, I was part of the Tennenbaum Trebuchets for Critmas 2018; the pieces I critiqued are featured below (they are all amazing pieces of literature so please check them out!) We may not ha
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oh dear. I hope your mother is better soon don't let life get too bleak around you! I hope you remember that there are always flowers and daydreams and warm words when you need them. what were those books you devoured?
(and I'm so glad the letter got to you. I had actually meant to message you about that when I got your card two weeks ago. (but I managed to fall over my own feet and hit my head in such a brilliantly clumsy way that I got a mild concussion as prize) thank you for that, by the way. I love the fox with his little hat and scarf. you're a darling! I'm wishing you all the best for this year, too)
(and I'm so glad the letter got to you. I had actually meant to message you about that when I got your card two weeks ago. (but I managed to fall over my own feet and hit my head in such a brilliantly clumsy way that I got a mild concussion as prize) thank you for that, by the way. I love the fox with his little hat and scarf. you're a darling! I'm wishing you all the best for this year, too)