"I Need Someone Whose Mind Falls Like A Chopper On A Block; To Whom The Pitch Of Absurdity Is Sublime,

"I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoestring adorable. To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves.-

(Artwork by KÄTHE KOLLWITZ.)

"Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves.-

Many moments in life are overlooked. We don't capture their essence because they are frequent, familiar and routine-esque. So they go by without meaning, without quality because we are impatient. Going to the beach by yourself, sitting on a bench in some garden, sitting by the window, music on the back as you watch everything outside moving, walking down some street with your friend, not necessarily talking, looking at your mother in the kicthen...etc. Moments like these when you let them be, let them sink and give yourself to them; they offer therapy, serenity, healing and they bring meaning all along. All you have to do is surrender and become the moment. Your day, your schedules, your work, your studies, your occupations and distractions will be done, finished, and taken care of sooner or later. Don't let them finish you, that's all.

Stars, Scars and Repairs:

The starry night looks incomparable tonight

And it reminds me of your face

Full of interstellar details.

Details I was ready to sort them out

And memorise them for eternity.

But here I am now, all by myself,

Stargazing and hurting.

For I never never ever thought that

Your realest face would turn

Into a mere fiction.

An image in the back of my mind

Depending on occasions, fleeting moments

To be remembered to reality.

Nevertheless, I stargaze and hurt

To remember you so that I forget you.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

"How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense."

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis.

(Artwork by Liza Sivakova.)

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Charles Darnay is probably becoming my favourite character so far in the story.

(Artwork Lesley Oldaker.)

"It would be grander, it would be more proper, if I quite simply placed myself at the disposal of fate, making no claims. But I can not; it’s the only thing I can’t do."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair.-

(Artwork by Thomas Alen Kopera.)