Death/Decay

“She knew what it was to experience absolute loss. But to contemplate that loss, in writing, was the highest pleasure” - she notes that those who abstract through words, are never bored. - p. 10 LRB, Devotion to the Cut, Adam Thirlwell.

“Nature is a strange factory, relentless in its productivity. We like to think life and death are opposite states, but it’s all tangled up together, the cherry blossom and the cancer: a never-ending production of more, a monstrous fecundity - Dylan Thomas’ green fuse that drives the budding flower but also blasts the roots of trees” - Olivia Laing,