Category: Wonderings
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The Books That I blame
A list of books that decided how I would view the world This is a reading list for a person who wants to spend their life chasing a story that isn’t there, choosing isolated (and orchestrated) moments of perfect destruction over unlaboured happiness. White Oleander, Janet Fitch Beauty in decay, night magic, broken girls. The…
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RE: A White Rabbit
I thought what I wrote yesterday was about a writer I admire called Rachel R. White, but it was actually about me and how I have always over-glamorised the Dostoyevskian/Nabokovian/Chekhovian/RUSSIAN beauty of desolation. Don’t tell me the moon is shining: show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov It was clearly (in…
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A White Rabbit
Married? Barely. To her own op-shop brand of boyfriend. Hunkered down in a grit-dust apartment with crystals in the bed. A bra tangled artfully around a broken comb, arranged on a book of poems no publisher would see. There’s a cat somewhere, dragging life through the stale rooms. White hair, a 60s carpet that comes…
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kæʒjuəl fæʃən
I’ve figured these boots out you know. I know their game. They refuse to work with anything they consider ‘too fashion’ or ‘too kæʒ’. (Soz, but how do you even spell cas[ual] without IPA? These are the things I struggle with.) I have the answer. It is this: a short (but not too short!) black…
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Fashionary
I like to doodle outfits when I’m thinking about what to wear to a particular occasion. I dabbled in fashion drawing during my Art Foundation year but I’m basically crap at it. I’ve posted scribblings before to illustrate a point (like Minnie Mouse Ears Are 100% a Suitable Wedding Hat) but I mean, they are…
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