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you long to be on your grandmother’s lap again, to watch attentively as your mother applies her lipstick. but you no longer have the eyes of a child and your perception of the world is clouded by the pain of their absence. so you carry that tenderness with you as you move through the world. the intimacy you once bore witness to becomes a practice o... See more
A ★★★★★ review of All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
Ursula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
As you can see, at my best I’m a freak with wit and substance
- Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
David Medalla, Self Portrait, 1984
In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more