Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life
Text ID: I was no one, I had neither name nor face. Moving through August, I was: nothing.
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Marguerite Duras, The Lover
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And I knew it. That’s the worst part: I knew it.
Marguerite Duras, The North China Lover
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Césarée (Marguerite Duras, 1978)
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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer’s Diary"
Clarice Lispector, from "A Breath of Life"
Patti Smith, from "Devotion"
Elena Ferrante, from "Incidental Inventions"
Marguerite Duras, from "Écrire"
Jane Austen’s writing table at Chawton Cottage, Hampshire
Charlotte Brontë's writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England
Virginia Woolf's writing desk in her writing lodge at Monk's House in Rodmell, Sussex
Reconstruction of Daphne du Maurier's study at the Smugglers Museum, Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
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Marguerite Duras, from "The Sea Wall," originally published in 1950
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tears, despair, and happiness.
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And I knew it. That’s the worst part: I knew it.
Marguerite Duras, The North China Lover
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The wish to be about to kill a lover, to keep him for yourself, yourself alone, to take him, steal him in defiance of every law, every moral authority—you don't know what that is, you've never experienced it?
Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr. Barbara Bray
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Succession 4.10, "With Open Eyes"; Marguerite Duras, The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray
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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover
Text ID: to devour and be devoured,
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There’s nothing left in my head but empty things.
~Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras por Richard Avedon
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🗡 Viserra, Alysanne, and Baelon Targaryen 🗡
fire & blood / franny choi, soft science / elisabeth le brun, julie le brun looking in a mirror (1787) / fire & blood / kim addonizio, queen of the game / marie laurencin, jeune filles et fleurs (1950) (with details) / milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being (1984) / commissioned art of viserra and baelon by @chillyravenart / fire & blood / le mains négatives (1979) dir. marguerite duras / leo tolstoy, war and peace / mel ferrer as prince andrey bolkonsky in war and peace (1956) / ava gardner photographed posing before a mirror / richard siken, litany in which certain things are crossed out / laura makabrescu interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / the swanee review: thesmophoria by melissa fabos, interspersed with a fire & blood snippet / david thauberger, prairie thunder (2020) / fire & blood / virginia woolf, a writer's diary / peter paul rubens, deborah kip and her children (1630) / c.w. gluck's opera orfeo et eurydice / niki de saint phalle, altar of women (1964) / jon ware's 'i am in eskew' podcast
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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover
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