It is with supreme gratitude that I greet the first day of my 60th decade on this beautiful planet. Thank you to all of you who give purpose to my life. Thank you also for the amazing well wishes and greetings this morning 🙏🏾🕊
“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
- David Lynch
„I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.“
Lawrence Durrell
* February 27, 1912
The grotesque is inherently associated with the feminine, long having shaped depictions of the female body—prostitutes, femmes fatales, and sorceresses. https://t.co/1NfTfOnelh
And then turning where the last pale
Lighthouse, like a Samson blinded, stands
And turns its huge charred orbit on the sands
I think of you — indeed mostly of you. . . .
— Lawrence Durrell, "Alexandria" (1946)
Now when the sea grows restless as a conscript,
Excited by fresh wind, climbs the sea-wall,
I walk by it and think about you all —
All indeed whom war or time threw up
On this littoral and tides could not move
Were objects for my study and my love.
Lawrence Durrell
#Alexandria