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fairydrowning · 2 years

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"It is August: the true ending of a year. I've grown sick from trying to love who I am."

-Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park," published in Gulf Stream

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lillyli-74 · 8 months

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Photography by Isa Marcelli

It is August; the true ending of the year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.

~Carlie Hoffman

#isa marcelli #carlie hoffman

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babytoothbrain · 2 years

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August of Another Summer and I'm Unfortunately Still Me

"Live or Die", Anne Sexton// "River's Mouth", @julykings// August Painting, Vasko Taškovski// "High Bridge Park", Carlie Hoffman// "The Women", Kim Addonizio// "The Terrible", Charlotte Eriksson// "Felicity", Mary Oliver// August, Ivan Kolisnyk// "On the Death of Summer and Baptismal Promises", @peoplehood// Alida Nugent//

#august 2022 #august #web weaving #parrallels #intertextuality #months #anne sexton #vasko taškovski #carlie hoffman #kim Addonizio #charlotte eriksson #mary oliver #ivan Kolisnyk

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sinligh · 2 years

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Couple of minutes separate me from sunrise

I supplied my own mind with all the destructive material it might need to ruin us; And it honored it all.

I asked for mercy, promised that I’ll create a better environment for both of us…

It deemed it all lies; and so it took control, spoke to me only in my dream flashes of the words I choose to swallow haunted me in my sleep.

All that broke me All that made me be.

I’m calm, tranquil, existing…. a sweet taste is left in my tongue from the last conversation i had. Citrusy; because of all the words I swallowed.

It’s still dark, i had enough of the night to decend to the basement of my soul and bury some of the rage, along with all the faith i had in it.

Hanging by a rope I climbed back up.

Now, I’m seriously considering using that same rope that is covered with the dust of the grave I buried my rage in

To drag the sun down.

The urge to wrap myself around her Is infuriating to nuzzle my face and melt slowly…

On second thought, the sweetness of melting slowly

Should be reserved only for August.

Apparently, I’m calm enough to wait for another day.

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•Quotes: Carlie Hoffman/Joyce Carol Oates/Sylvia Plath/Alice Hoffman/Anne Sexton/Hannah Green/

•original context: sinligh

•Art reference:

1. Untitled, by Monika Mostowik. 2.art by Truls Espedal. 3. Moonchild, 2017 - Santiago Caruso. 4. Art by Thomas Blackshear. 5. Yellow shadow by Margaret Durow.

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pityroad · 2 years

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“It is a muggy August morning and the air in the room is still. Well over half the year has gone by already, which is a worry. I wanted to make something of myself this year. There’s still time, I think. Definitely some time.”

Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year. It is the season of reversals, when the birds no longer sing in the morning and the evenings are made up of equal parts golden light and black clouds. The rock-solid and the tenuous can easily exchange places until everything you know can be questioned and put into doubt.

"She remembered it was August and they say August brings bad luck. But September would arrive one day like an exit. And September was for some reason a lighter and more transparent month."

“It is August: the true ending of a year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.”

The Months, Linda Pastan (x) // The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward // The Pond, Mary Oliver (x) // Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (x) // In Search for a Dignity, Clarice Lispector (x) // Basic August, Eileen Myles // High Bridge Park, Carlie Hoffman (x)

#August #compilations #web weaving #comparatives #Linda Pastan #yrsa daley ward #Mary Oliver #Alice Hoffman #clarice lispector #eileen myles #carlie hoffman #mine

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8zo · 8 months

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#august #summer #quotes #literature #carlie hoffman #books #english #poetry #insecurity #memories

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ardent-reflections · 9 months

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It is August: the true ending of a year. I've grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman

#carlie hoffman #literature #spilled thoughts #poetry #words #poems and quotes #poem #quotes #lit #august #spilled quotes #spilled ink #spilled heart #spilled poetry #spilled prose #spilled words #spilled writing #creative writing

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minwritings · 8 months

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august

#poetry #sad poem #sad quotes #poetic #writers and poets #writing #young poets #sadbeautifultragic #carlie hoffman #august #life

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oldwinesoul · 2 years

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It is August: the true ending of a year. I've grown sick from trying to love who l am.

—Carlie Hoffman, "High Bridge Park;" published in Gulf Stream

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia books #renaissance art #renaissance #poetry #dark academia lovers #vintage classics #dark acdemia #Carlie Hoffman

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sharkaiju · 2 years

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It is August: the true end of the year. I've grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman

#big fucking mood #carlie hoffman #quotes

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chillpotato · 9 months

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Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park"

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 9 months

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Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps/Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 9 months

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{Tumblr User: @poetryatmost (x)/ Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps/ Franz Kafka, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923/ Anne Sexton, Live or Die; from 'Imitations of Drowning'/ Emily Dickinson, from "No crowd that has occurred" (Poem #515), Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson/Franz Kafka, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913/ Tumblr User: @poetryatmost/ Listy Tamtego Lata, from Letters of Summer Past/ Carlie Hoffman, from "High Bridge Park," published in Gulf Stream/ Alex Dimitrov, from "Love," in Love and Other Poems}

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motheroftheantichrist · 3 months

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Theories that I don't actually believe, but have fun thinking about: Saw edition

Adam was the original Jigsaw apprentice.

While I know this isn't true, and don't actually believe Adam would even be a good apprentice, it's just funny to me how well it could actually fit into the bat shit crazy narrative of this franchise.

Consider...

John Kramer has just begun his work as Jigsaw. He's killed Cecil, and maybe a few others. Jill Tuck, concerned by his increasingly erratic behavior, hires a private investigator to tail her ex-husband and report back. Enter: Adam.

He trails John to his warehouse and either springs one of the traps and escapes, earning John's regard, or is caught by John and deemed useful for his particular skill set. Seth Baxter has just been killed and John needs someone to tail Hoffman, so Adam is recruited.

He finds most of the people in Logan's game, other than Logan, Anna, and Mitch, who John new personally. The others seem more like people that Adam would have found, or found out about given his line of work. He probably saw Carly steal the purse and inhaler and was able to track her down. I always thought that it was a stretch that John had happened to know about that, and managed to find her as well.

Adam is planted in the bathroom game because it requires two people, and to test Amanda. If you look carefully at John's reasons for testing Adam in Saw 1, they are pretty flimsy compared to Gordon's. He dislikes that Adam stalks people, even though that's what John does to grab victims as well as get a feel for Hoffman as a person, and claims he is passive in his own life, which may be true, but is a considerably weaker excuse than he usually uses when choosing test subjects. Not to mention the fact that Adam is never given any actual instructions. He was simply there to act as Amanda and Hoffman did in Saws II and IV.

The bullet that Lawrence had was a blank. It was enough to injure Adam, and would have been believable if Lawrence had decided to actually try to kill him, but he would have survived.

John can tell that Amanda is teetering on the edge over Adam's fate and has a feeling she is going to go back, so he puts Adam back in the bathroom, which is why he is still seemingly trapped there when she returns to "kill" him. This is then followed by the usual theories about the plastic not being held on for long enough, and the corpse being someone else's.

Adam was the one who switched the chain on the decoy corpses foot when he found out that John was going to leave a tape to lead Lawrence to the bathroom (maybe he's the one who convinced him to do it) with the hopes that Lawrence would realize he was still alive.

Thank you for coming to my insane and completely pointless TED Talk.

#saw franchise #saw 2004 #saw #adam faulkner stanheight #apprentice adam #lawrence gordon #john kramer #saw theory #saw au #logan nelson #mark hoffman #chainshipping #amanda young #adam is alive

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mystiqueghost · 9 months

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—to commemorate the beginning of a new month, here's a collection of my favorite quotes about august. authors are listed in order: Denise Levertov, Ingeborg Bachmann, Listy Tamtego Lata, Carlie Hoffman, Sara Baume, Alex Dimitrov, William Faulkner, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton

#poetry #slyvia plath #poets and writers #webs

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laylaslibrary · 9 months

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It is August: the true ending of a year. I’ve grown sick from trying to love who I am.

Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream

(via lifeinpoetry)

#august #quotes #literature #poetry #aesthetic #books #dark acadamia quotes #lit #dark acamedia

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