_The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald_

_The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald_

(Artwork by Émile Friant.)

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[ID: But wait - I sat all night waiting - an impulse again runs through us; we rise, we toss back a mane of white spray; we pound on the shore; we are not to be confined.]

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.

(The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald.)

(Artwork by Mario Sironi.)

Meaningfully Lonely:

I get so lonely that I claw

Your initials in the wall

I tire but my fingers hunger

To conjure up your presence

Substantial or trivial, so

I claw. They are clawed.

My eyes follow the patterns on the wall

I focus, I gaze, I tear in between them

Then I crawl and jump into the letters.

They circle and encircle me,

They wrap me in their significance,

I am thus still lonely but meaningful.

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(Artwork by Mourteza Katouzian.)

"And if I were you, I'd quit all my worryings, not that I can't solve them but that they are capapble of wearing me down and hurt my chances of having better moments and so better days. Then I repeat, and if I were you I'd defy all my worryings and catch a sunset and gaze especially for that orange tinge that mates with the days to come and conjure up a little promise for myself and blow it with the winds for tomorrows to come, wherein I shall not be worrier but happier, yes happier."

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