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sophie | 20s | mex | she/her

BE STRONG, BE BRAVE

Poem “Problem Area” (2016), in Last Sext, by Melissa Broder; // Unknown; // “The Waves” (1931), by Virgina Woolf; // “Notebooks” (2017), by Tennessee Williams; // “Fast Car” (1988), by Tracy Chapman; // “The American Crisis” (1776), by Thomas Paine; // Quote by @maplepecanpastry /// Stills from “Joan of Arc” (1948), by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman

TO RETURN TO MY TREES

“The Overstory” (2019), by Richard Powers; // “Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript” (2001), by Henry David Thoreau; // Kim Novak; // Chinese Proverb; // “To the lighthouse” (1927), by Virginia Woolf; // Santosh Kalwar; // Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; // “Cosmos” (1980), by Carl Sagan; // “Timeline” (1999), by Michael Crichton

HOW CAN I FEEL SO LONELY?

Friedrich Nietzsche; // “Foolin’ “, (1983), by Def Leppard; // “There All the Honor Lies” on Babylon 5, Season 4 Episode 14; // Unknown; // Unknown; // “Alone in a Crowd – Extending Ourselves as a Companion” (2022), by Caren McLane; // Iris Kolrick, “Shadownova”, by Mark Alda; // “Dark blue”, by Jack’s Mannequin. /// All pictures by Alex Prager, “Face in the Crowd” (Short 2013).

I WANT YOU TO BE MINE. SELFISHLY, THOUGHTLESSLY, MINE

@vaitiolo ; // “Orpheus and Eurydice”, by Virgil; // H.G. Wells, from a letter to Rebecca West (w. April, 1913); // “No, I don’t miss the dissipated night’s”, by Alexander Pushkin (tr. by D.M. Thomas) (1832); // “Blue is the Warmest Color”, by Ghalia Lacroix (2013); // “The Voyage Out”, by Virginia Woolf (1915); // Virgina Woolf; // “Soft Human”, by Emery Allen (2019)

WE’RE NOT MEANT TO STAY THE SAME

Deepak Chopra; // "Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey", by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008); // Lisa Brooks; // "The Angles In Heaven Done Signed My Name", by Leo "Bud" Welch; // "Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays", by Durga Chew-Bose; // "The Book of Disquiet", by Fernando Pessoa; // "I've Changed a Lot", by Sarah Juers; //"The Rom Con", by Devon Daniels.

A MAN WHO WORRIES OVER ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING

"Clock NOW", by Caroline Cadenza (2011) (situated in "Tide Tables Cafe" Richmond, Surrey, UK); // "Ivan the Terrible" (1945), by Sergei Eisenstein; // "The Night of the Iguana" (1964), by John Huston; // "Darkest Dungeon"; // @mlgrsdesing; // "Alien in a Small Town" (2014), by Jim Cleaveland; // "Basket Case", by Green Day; // "Crime and Punishment" (1935), by Josef von Sternberg; // Unknown; // "Batman: The Killing Joke" (1988), by Alan Moore

LET US LIVE LIKE FLOWER

Flowers: White Franklinia (Franklinia alatamaha); // Purple Delphinium (Delphinium elatum); // Orange Pansy (Viola x wittrockiana); // Green Hellebore (Helleborus argutifoluis corsicus); // Pink Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana); // Blue Flax (Linum usitatissimum)

THIS IS HELL AND I CAN'T ESCAPE

"Arthermath", by Caravan Palace; // "Hell", by Butcher6; // Kenyatta Rogers; // "How I Got Out of Feeling Trapped and Found a New Life", by Cuurio; // "Apocryphal", by Lisa Marie Basile; // Erik Pevernagie; // "Silver Soul", by Beach House; // "Feeling Trapped? 9 Ways to Finally Break Free", by Aletheia; // Chris Motionless; // "22", by The Nonsense Journal; // unknown; // "I Can't Handle Change", by Roar
Art by Bart Hess, "Liquified Research" (2010)

THE PLEASURE OF SIN IS SOON GONE, BUT THE STING REMAINS.

Saadi Shirazi; // "The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalâluddin Rumi", by Jaläl al-Din Rumi (Maulana). tr. Kabir Helminski and Andrew Harvey; // "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G", by U.G. Krishnamurti; // "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", by Mitch Albom; // Roger L'Estrange; // "Suicide: A Study in Sociology", by Emile Durkheim; // "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study", by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; // "The Maze Maker", by Michael Ayrton
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