The Craft (1996)
“To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.”
― Salman Rushdie, Fury
Natalie Portman photographed for Vogue, 1996.
“I told myself that, if he left without anything happening, then I had lost my chance and I would die. I wasn’t melting or longing for him to touch me or anything like that; the desire wasn’t in my body but wedged in my mind, persistent and burrowing. I didn’t even like Julian much. But liking people and even loving them seemed to me now like ways of keeping yourself safe, and I didn’t want to be safe. I wanted to cross the threshold and be initiated into real life. My innocence was a sign of something maimed or unfinished in me.”
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I’ve gotten brave enough to surf the internet when there’s nothing else to do at work, and I’ve been spending a lot of time reading short stories on The New Yorker website. I liked this one.
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Song for Reinier Lucassen’s Sphinx
this is always very nice
