How about in 2024 we stop it with reading books with the goal in mind to finish the book so you can add it to your list of read books and start reading books slowly and intentionally with the goal to rip it into pieces with your mind and be touched by it and formed by it and changed by it
evermore or the 1? fearless or red? lover or better than revenge? wildest dreams or dress? stay beautiful or change? superstar or starlight? delicate or enchanted? tim mcgraw or shake it off? miss americana and the heartbreak prince or you belong with me? bye bye baby or epiphany? haunted or seven? never grow up or anti-hero? midnight rain or come in with the rain?
evermore, red, lover, wildest dreams, change, starlight, delicate, shake it off, miss americana, epiphany!¡, anti-hero, come in with the rain.
Studio Ghibli will be like. what if you had no control in the adventure you were forced on. what if it was up to you to stumble blindly through the world your ancestor failed to balance. what if he tried to force the responsibility of balancing it onto you. what if you were made to let go of you mother (again. you didn’t get to say goodbye this time either). what if you remembered everything you were meant to forget.
and what if joe hisaishi went all out on the soundtrack
“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)
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