( via facebook memories--anita barnard?--3 yrs ago / via )

How many words does a writer need?

"The reality that interests me is strange and flickering and haunting." --Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency

"Most, however, suggests that Lovecraft's mad Arab Abdul Al-Hazred´s real name was Abu al-Husayn, known as Ibn al-Rawandi or Rhazes."

"Snowdrops

Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring–

afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy
in the raw wind of the new world."

--Louise Glück

"On the day I wrote this, Taylor Swift had 468 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, whereas The New York Times had a mere 92 million." (via 3quarksdaily)