Prism of Your Mind

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Of course, you summon ghosts at your peril. The suffering of others can bleed into your soul. You try to protect yourself. Memory is inventive. Memory is a performance. Memory invites itself, and is hard to turn away. Memories are what make it hard for you to sleep. Memories procreate. And the uninvited memories always seem to the point.

— Susan Sontag

thebloomsburygroup:

Virginia Woolf at Monks House in 1931.

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oldhollywood:

Duke Ellington - Rhapsody in Blue

Composer: George Gershwin/Personnel

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Life

Has been busy, I have two jobs, currently focusing on finishing my degree, and my greatest priorities are finishing a Patricia Highsmith book that is due at the library in 2 days. Meanwhile, I have been having Guy Maddinesque & Lynchian dreams that haunt me for days & I don’t know if I’m even living in reality or not. This is my life.

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proustitute:

Jean Cocteau by Philippe Halsman, 1948 (source; via)

“I can’t think of anything more apt to set the imagination stirring, drifting, creating than the idea - the fact- that anyone you walk past on the pavement anywhere may be a sadist, a compulsive thief, or even a murderer.” - Patricia Highsmith

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oldhollywood:

Miles Davis - Florence Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Elevator to the Gallows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire- it tells you how to desire.

— Slavoj Zizek