thinkers!
I make a mental note that it’s important for artists to live in big, bustling cities. This way, they are constantly reminded of what they are up against.
Paloma Mag • 023. CULTURE/VULTURE.
In fact I have abandoned altogether that kind of pointless entry; instead I tell what some would call lies. “That’s simply not true,” the members of my family frequently tell me when they come up against my memory of a shared event. “The party was not for you, the spider was not a black widow, it wasn’t that way at all.” Very likely they are right,
... See moreKeepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
Somewhere along the way, we decided that the only acceptable form of communication is a main-stage monologue.
In Defense of Thinking Small
There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigue with the constant push for more and a longing for lives that are simpler, quieter, and more self-directed. Not smaller in value, but in volume. To me, that’s not regression. That’s freedom.
In Defense of Thinking Small
the price to pay for his parents’ neglect is the loss of my girlhood.
give me back my girlhood
Or, in MacLane’s words: “Why shouldn't everybody pose? . . . It is so amusing to pose. Besides, unless you aren’t clever enough to select poses, why ever be yourself to any one? You have a right to yourself for yourself and a few friends. Why should I give myself to you? You are nothing to me.”
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
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