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Atlantic Study 5 by Kathleen Dunn
Simone. 26, male, Italian.
Totally self-absorbed, and yet totally unselfish. Full of joy, empty of worries.
Likes music, art, quotes, poetry, the net, and photography.
Contributes to Black and White, The Final Sentence, and the Lit tag.
Mail / Last.fm / Goodreads / Ask
Totally self-absorbed, and yet totally unselfish. Full of joy, empty of worries.
Likes music, art, quotes, poetry, the net, and photography.
Contributes to Black and White, The Final Sentence, and the Lit tag.
Mail / Last.fm / Goodreads / Ask
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"When I kiss my daughter goodnight and wish her sweet dreams, she understands my wish for her is kind, but she knows, as all children do, that it’s impossible to be told by our parents what our dreams are supposed to be like. They know they have to dream themselves out of life and back into it, because life must always win us back."
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"She played with the night-lights burning on the table, making prints of her fingertips from the wax, and when he requested she give him one to keep for ever she told him her fingerprints were all over his body anyway."
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"I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day."
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Travel: Dispatch from a Shrinking Planet
People say that because of Google Earth and the Net, travel is less of a priority. I would say the opposite is the case. The very fact of easy interconnection, and the illusion such contact creates of understanding, makes travel ever more necessary. The world is not what it seems.
I think the world has been made more restless, more volatile, more impatient through the Internet, and it has robbed people of contemplative solitude and introduced a new solitude, a sort of loneliness induced by a buzz of information. But these very alterations in culture, far from diminishing curiosity, have made much of the world less predictable, more dramatic and accessible, full of paradoxes that have to be seen to be believed.
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1. People who “hate getting old” are idiots. Every year is a privilege. Let me tell you, callow miserabilists: getting to 60 feels like a triumph.
6. When someone starts a sentence “I’m not being…”, they always are.
8. All these memories darting through my mind like discarded fairground goldfish in a sewer. The random kindnesses of strangers, how they glide and shimmer.
17. The scarier the world becomes, the more important it is to focus on the correct use of “less” and “fewer”.
35. There is not a single bad mood that cannot be lifted, however grudgingly, by reading a Larkin poem.
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Eyes and Fingers
A child is
stooped over
picking flowers
with her fingers
storing away light and gifts.
A man is reading words
sitting
holding down the pages with his fingers
storing away flames and shadows.
Fingers connect
‘Reading and Picking’
Read, picked, and compiled
A child picking flowers. A man reading poems.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
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