ENGLISH-ROSES

I am a dreamer, an old soul trapped in a young body. I talk to the stars and send letters to the moon. I miss things I never had, I want to leave for distant lands to never come back.

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"... What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she would fly."
— The Virgin Suicides

“Your pillows are made of violets and your bed of roses, night after night I’ve longed for you,”

Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “The Death of Odysseus,”

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Noelle Kocot, from 4; "Sappho to Erinna," originally published in May 2021

“A faint echo of his love came back to him. He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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“ Henry Peach Robinson, Sleep (detail), albumen print photograph, 1867
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Henry Peach Robinson, Sleep (detail), albumen print photograph, 1867

Above all, she is the girl who “feels” things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young.

Joan Didion, "Where the Kissing Never Stops" (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968)

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sculptor worldwide keepsake bag

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She herself is a haunted house.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Lady of the House of Love

“She lapsed into a sort of sombre exclusion, a curious communion with mysterious powers, a sort of mystic, dark state,”

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Rainbow,” wr. c. 1919

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Rebel - "Les élémens, simphonie nouvelle" for Orchestra, I. Le chaos
J.-F. Rebel - Ballets Sans Paroles
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Pavel Serbin/Pratum Integrum Orchestra

Happy Halloween!

Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) - “Les élémens, simphonie nouvelle” for Orchestra, I. Le chaos. Performed by Pavel Serbin/Pratum Integrum Orchestra on period instruments.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from a diary entry featured in Earthly Signs Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

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Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931)

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Angela Carter, from The Collected Stories; "The Lady of the House of Love,"