Did we not stand
under one trade wind?
We are strangers.)"
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on."
(Source: infinity-on-trial, via wildcat2030)
GAO XINGJIAN PORTRAIT - french/chinese born writer & painter
“la solitude est une condition nécessaire de la liberté”
le néant niait ce que je voyais à la lumière
plus fraîche de mes yeux naufragés
—Aimé Césaire, “Au Delà”
Speaking as if there is a voice to hear my thoughts.
They are of varying ages and degrees of beauty, often vulgar, and in a sense already depreciated, but women, truly women, and palpably women, even at the expense of all the other qualities of their bodies and their souls; so many women, in league with these arcades they stroll along, are content to be solely women that the man who is still irresolute and solitary in his conception of love, the man who does not yet believe in the plurality of women, the child seeking an image of the absolute for his nights, has no business in these parts.
—Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant (trans. Simon Watson Taylor)
Hollyhock and Butterflies - Early Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Located at the Palace Museum
Dai Jin (1388–1462) Wikimeda
Answer:
For a proper answer, you’d have to ask someone who agrees with the premise inherent in the question. But thanks. Here’s a picture of me for safekeeping.
