February 2012
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the...
– Jeanette Winterson (via ucfbookfestival)
Is it me that you want? Cause it's me you can...
Still remember that magical night - I was walking by myself, it was around 10pm, I was lost and happy and quiet and calm, and then I saw the words you said, and I saw you burn yourself into my memory with them.
But I said I wouldn’t write about you, so I’m going t say I wrote this for somebody else.
Over time, it can be a strain to project yourself as both an exception and an...
– Adam Mars-Jones, “Mrs Winterson’s Daughter,” a review of Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Cape, 2011), London Review of Books, 26 January 2012, page 6. I disagreed viscerally with much of this long review, which gives the sense of the reviewer’s having hated Winterson on...
Men have scars; women, mysteries.
– Cersei Lannister (via suzywire)
List of unsolved problems in philosophy -... →
ninaperlman:
woah.
I’d recognize that stupid cowlick from a mile away. But why?