The true magic

of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

How does a project mature?

It is obviously a most mysterious,
imperceptible process.
It carries on independently of ourselves,
in the subconscious,
crystallizing on the walls of the soul.
It is the form of the soul
that makes it unique,
indeed only the soul decides
the hidden 'gestation period' of that image
which cannot be perceived
by the conscious gaze.

Andrej Tarkovsky

This is just to say

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold This is just to say.William Carlos Williams.

She wondered: How could people

respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

Jonathan Franzen.The Corrections.

leaving things in books

library book return.

bookmarks for other people to find.

mentos gum wrapper in 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'.

from the author of persepolis

Marjane Satrapi. Embroideries.

aesthetic immorality

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

Truman Capote. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories.