Mar 12, 2025
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this book made me cry. just read it its so worth it
honorable mention: the perks of being a wallflower. i need to find my copy and reread it. it makes me feel like myself.
Apr 7, 2025
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I sat on my bed crying for a half an hour the second I turned the final page. Went mute for the better part of the day.
Dec 16, 2024
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The Blue Flower, a short perfect novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, was published in London in 1995 when she was 78 years old. It’s a dramatization of Friedrich von Hardenberg’s years as a struggling writer and student, from 1790 to 1797, before he made a name for himself as romantic symbolist poet Novalis, and tells the story of his infatuation with the very ordinary, childish 12-year-old Sophie von Kühn. He meets her when he’s 22 and falls in mystical love at first sight with her. Like many powerful novels, it’s a book of longing. What von Hardenberg really longs for however isn’t Sophie, but the “blue flower” he’s writing about. Some lines from the story he reads aloud:“I have no craving to be rich, but I long to see the blue flower. It lies incessantly at my heart, and I can imagine and think about nothing else. Never did I feel like this before. It is as if until now I had been dreaming, or as if sleep had carried me into another world.”The blue flower is what he’s been searching for his entire life but cannot find, will never find.What it represents is not explained. It might be understood as a perfect moment of transcendental joy; or the Great Beauty, or the writing that gives meaning to life, the hope, which destroys us, the trembling, skipping longing for the infinite. The flower is different for all of us. The blue has never been seen. We could do with more vaulting romanticism I feel.“The universe, after all,” thinks Friedrich, “is within us.”
Jun 15, 2021
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i listen to this album and after nearly every song think “this is literally the best song ever”
the starting trio of freak/tin man/steamroller is so incredible
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it's boutta be a donna summer summer
May 28, 2024
first photo in my camera roll, saved from tumblr in 2012. absolute classic and i still think of this all the time
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