June 2025 – world enough and time
2 posts published by amelia during June 2025| world enough and time
2 posts published by amelia during June 2025| world enough and time
The World is a problematic place if the prophesies Aeneas relies on are wilfully deceptive and superficially true. Dido curses Aeneas to ‘fall before his day/ unburied in the middle of the sand.’ 4.620 We glimpse an alternative future And are reminded that Virgil is writing with the gift of hindsight. The narratives we create…| world enough and time
man in my heart space / fresh-cut roses in her hands heart full of pain heart full of love you’re sitting crouched inside my ribcage warming your hands on my heart *** I felt you in there when …| world enough and time
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I have sorta wanted to write an article about mindfulness ever since I did the university course in Michaelmas term of my second year, but I hesitate; this is mainly because mindfulness means different things to different people, and one of the greatest joys of it for me has been creating my own version of…| world enough and time
My Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are so completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling’s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was…| world enough and time
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way—the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. II…| world enough and time
I did not have a huge variety of music played in my house when I was growing up. It was mostly classical: my father is a talented pianist and has been playing ever since I can remember, he himself falling in love with Chopin and Beethoven at a young age. I used to take the…| world enough and time
Take off your colours you whose body’s poetry chords pluck in my much-played heart sing yourself to me and I will sing myself to you *** A.W. July, 2013| world enough and time
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the…| world enough and time
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.…| world enough and time
