( via / me )

Kashmir.

"In an age of purely horizontal progress, where the mass of humanity resembles more and more that line of Chinese people being led to the guillotine about whom we read in the chronicles of the Boxer Rebellion, the only non-frivolous attitude seems to be that of the man who, while standing in line, was reading a book." --Cristina Campo via via @ambrosiobarcelo

"Grey and furtive in the final twilight..."

"in daylight
a firefly is
just an insect"

--Bashō via @bashosociety

"...the major spasmodic epics assume a dramatic form, in spite of their entire unsuitability for the stage."