November 2011
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a dream:
sometimes I think I want to edit short story collections, be an editor like that, with this craving of curating a book inside of me. But I think I would want something artistic too. I wish I could work on a really nice online magazine, or a series of little collaborative zines. Something with people coming together to create something nice. It doesn’t need to be original or groundbreaking,...
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number of books that I own but haven’t read yet: 55 Maybe I should get on that…
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foxandfayvel replied to your post: you know you live in the countryside when:
“you never find the need to get properly dressed when you go outside because there is absolutely NO chance of anybody seeing you.” this, this, this. There’s nothing better in the world than getting the post in your pajamas and wellington boots.
yes! (well I live so deep in the countryside I have to drive 15 minutes to...
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you know you live in the countryside when:
there are no city sounds, not even the random cars
you heat with a boiler and fireplace with wood you constantly have to go get outside while wearing oversize rubber boots.
All of said wood is from trees chopped off from the land where you live, none of it had to be bought
You get warned to not put your trash bags in the garage for a while because of a bear nearby
Porcupines are frequents...
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Dear Shirley,
Do you have shivers before a storm comes? Mine run up and down my spine, and come to silently rest in my fingertips, so that they quiver ever so lightly. They are so electrified it feels like I can touch the air, like a pressure against my skin. I want to tear into it, see if it opens a door into another world, ripe and young and new. Things are often too bright for me to stare at, and I only rely...
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Anonymous asked: a memory from your child, one that means the most?
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Anonymous asked: What did you think of The Collector?
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I shan’t ever be a writer I think. I keep loosing my words, they scatter on my wooden floors, like the pearls of a broken necklace, and no matter how many I pick up again, there always seem to be some missing. And every time it happens I loose some more, until one day I will be left with prepositions and articles and empty stories that don’t tell anything and nobody wants to read,...
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BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Warhorses of Letters →
Comedy by Marie Phillips and Robert Hudson. Napoleon and Wellington’s horses exchange love letters against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby (click to listen to the first episode)
I am waiting for something extraordinary to happen.
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Everyone has it in them to express themselves that fundamental thing that they...
– Stephen Fry (What I Wish I’d Known When I Was 18)
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Anonymous asked: Why do you like Anne Frank? Is she an inspiration for you? x
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Anonymous asked: what are your favorite movies? i'm sorry if this has been asked recently!
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