And you’re in love?
“Ma, we’ve never even kissed.”
And that has anything to do with it?
“Okay, fine. Yes, I think so”
“But don’t tell anyone. Don’t even repeat it to yourself.”
Why?
“Because it’s humiliating.”
Sweetheart, love isn’t humiliating. Hasn’t anyone ever told you that?
“Who would have told me that?”
Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.
“Like hummus?”
Like earth. It grounds you.
All this nonsense about love making you feel high, that’s not real. It should hold you like the earth.
“Wow, Ma.”
What? I have a heart, don’t I?
- Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Every single time.
Punica granatum Inks on paper 29.7x42 cm
Pomegranates have a rich symbolism across many cultures and myths. It is associated with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite who planted the first pomegranate tree. In ancient Rome and Persian cultures, it was considered a symbol of prosperity and fertility. In the myth of Persephone - goddess of rebirth, Hades uses pomegranates to tempt the goddess to stay in the underworld. Here the symbolism relates to death and the transition between seasons.
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doing some research..
"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones."
- F. Kafka
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
shiv is so
catherine lacey
cut
bonnie burstow
radical feminist therapy: working in the context of violence
girl who has only the most normal relationship with time and memory and regret and grief
brendan fraser is absolutely right for not going to the golden globes. even (and especially) with his nomination
they made him into a joke, mocked him for being assaulted by their former president for years and called it "just a joke". so fuck them
really speaks to me personally