Preface To A Dream, Alessandra Casini, 2023

Studying in the park + city walk

Spring

hiya! i hope you're havin a lovely day. dya have any book reccs for japanese literature/poetry?

hi! i don’t have anything on poetry and even with literature, i can tell you what’s on my tbr:

the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa

heaven by mieko kawakami

the travelling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa

lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura

murakami: sputnik sweetheart and the wind-up bird chronicle are on my tbr; i enjoyed 1Q84 and killing commendatore

the sound of waves by yukio mishima

strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami

good evening to girls who are half tree, guys who’ve died twice, guys that have been dead for seven years, bisexuals who are possessed by a forest, gays that can take objects out of their dreams, guys that make you hold a robotic bee in a pit, dead welsh kings, psychic moms, latin teachers that have been framed for murder, boys without internal organs, hit men that read anglo-saxon poetry, and declan

it's a little sad that people expect songs to always reflect the lives of the lyricist and not a sign of the lyricist's strong imagination.

you don't know mitski. you don't know hozier. kate bush did not witness a murder of a hammer horror star and take their role as the hunchback of notre dame (it would be fun if she did though)

today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:

“you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you”

To everyone running here for refuge from Twitter since they are selling it to Elon Musk, welcome! In order to survive here, you must sacrifice one of your monsters or discard your entire hand.

In today's episode I spent the whole day studying math, taking random naps and staying late studying physics.

4/26/22

My hardcover copy of ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong arrived today . I started reading it on my kindle a month ago but its one of those books that you just have to have a physical copy of . Even though I’m on Eid break, I’ve been spending most of my days preparing for my exam that’s in 22 days . I have to remind myself that this is for my future, especially when all I want to do is rest .