"You will become way less concerned with what other people
think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de'Benci

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"We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age when the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it's stuck there..."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🎭 Stage masks, Roman mosaic 2nd C. AD

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"Goblins are creatures of magic and mayhem. Never trust a goblin, but respect their space" ~ SGR

more in: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk

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art: Stephen G. Rae

“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”

Winnie the Pooh
by AA Milne
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🎨 Bai Xueshi (China)

In reply to an inquiry, it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.
Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds.

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'Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told.'

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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🎨 Jeanine Donkers,
Memento

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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📚 Perfection

‘She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting’
The Owl Service
Alan Garner
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Under the spell of this wonderful novel since childhood 🦉