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A poem I wrote after reading the files:

The Four Evangelists Pieter Aertsen, b. 1508, d. 2 June 1575. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

i feel like i’m watching society rot in real time. so many people are meaner, weirder, and completely disconnected from empathy

Life had more purpose when I was working on it. It’s a big project, but hey, so are most things worth doing!

I really need to get back into writing the first volume of my work on Andrea Dworkin…

@raisinchoirgirl One of my favorite saints to go to

This could become a funny meme

The Serpent Approaches by Gustave Doré (1866)

Anyway—a perfect example of the issue with the current state of reading is addressed by Fran Lebowitz in conversation with Toni Morrison—people use fiction as a mirror to see themselves instead of using it as a doorway, or a window, as a way out.

We need deaconesses by the end of Vatican III

In my Father's house are many mansions

Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of child trafficking 1,586 days ago. None of her clients have been arrested...

A teenage Sylvia Plath reflected in a mirror, c. 1946-1947

Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.

nobody: Jules on her way to meet Cal Jacob’s :

How many angels can dance on the edge of a library card?

found this 2 be delightful