Category: Art & Review
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TBL Book Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
I suppose it provides some insight to this little thing called love: we don’t really know why we love something, we just do. And so Wonderland is enjoyable, even though taken apart it is the furthest thing from wonderful. Overall, it’s not just a little bit mad.
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Quote: Ella Minnow Pea
Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz. – Mannheim, Ella Minnow Pea
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Books: Delta of Venus
At least three people over the weekend have asked me: “What are you reading?” Without a wince, unapologetically and unashamedly I replied: “Porn.” Or perhaps more accurately I should have said erotica. Because that was what it was. Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus was a journey into the hot and bothered, into the sexual deviances and discoveries of…
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TBL Book Review: The Giver (1993)
The Giver (1993) follows a boy named Jonas through the thirteenth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to “Sameness,” a plant that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past…
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The Book List
These books are ones I associate with turning points in my life: my foray into the rebellious, my love affair with the nonsensical, my enduring hunger for the philosophical. Some of the books here are so loved that I have two copies, one to read and one to cherish. Some of them aren’t even with…
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dare to be your own altar worship the god of your self you are a phenomenon and strings of priests lined up by their figs will follow
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de·hu·man·ize.
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You know the words. The baby’s a bastard, you’re a whore. But there’s no word for the man who doesn’t come back. -Polly to Ada, Peaky Blinders E02 xx
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Heyyy Greeting Cards!
I like making cards for various occasions. (And I can be persuaded take commissions!)
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