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"I offer my dinner guest, after dinner, the choice between regular and decaf coffee, when in fact I don’t have any decaf in the house. I am so sincere in my effort to be a good host that I lie; I think this probably happens all the time in poetry.

You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that."

—Mary Ruefle, from "Kangaroo Beach" in Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012)

Woah hold up, it’s Salmon Slammin Saturday

Lazy days

“In the distance, she beckons me with her blue silence. (She is my Wertherian Charlotte. My Lotte. Lottchen) Her mask perversely insures that she cannot speak. She is as wordless as [the rhinoceros]. She is even more mute than [the rhinoceros]. While the other masked figures in the front row are wearing the bauta, this blue woman wears the domino: an oval black mask kept in place by a button held between the teeth, an arrangement which rendered its wearer temporarily speechless. Her face becomes a single surreal eye and a huge open mouth, like a Francis Bacon silent scream”

(Carol Mavor on Pietro Longhi’s Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice (1751), Blue Mythologies)

This extract from a Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston interview... ok fruits

Sunday activities 🐸 💕

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Stickers and prints 

Eartha Kitt during her performance at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, 1961.

The Visitor // Brandon • jjbrndn

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