Not sure how to go about this but should be exciting. Time to break out the pens and notepads.

Not pictured: Animal Sanctuary - Sarah Faulkner. These books just came in the mail! I also made my own notebook, the brown leather on the top. A little wonky for my first try, but I lucked out on that pretty scrap of leather, and it was a rewarding task. It feels precious to me and I plan to keep it close at hand. Super stoked for my second Wurlitzer read as well.

Today's read which I would highly recommend. Wurlitzer makes time, space, and motif malleable; must-read for any fans of quantum physics, space-time theory, and/or chaos and confusion.

"I think of you and me as the doomed lovers we never were. We walk in some autumn's continual rain in my dream, and grasp at one another, as though each moment was the moment of parting ... Each thing then becomes the last, and we wander down deserted streets, without touching, and are aliens wherever we go ... We come together rarely and then like two infected lovers in some contagious ruin, we lie down together only so that we might die warm."

Taking a Beat Gen literature class this semester, and this is one of our first reads. Already into it!

My current train companion is making me cry in public, but in a productive way. Thank you, Willem and Jude.

In the spirit of the inauguration, here's my favorite section of the only book that has been able to bring me comfort. We will someday need to make use of our anger, heartbreak, and differences in order to ultimately find a common ground.

From "Uses of Anger"

"You asked me once when I knew that he was for me, and I told you that I had always known. But that wasn't true, and I knew it even as I said it — I said it because it sounded pretty, like something someone might say in a book or a movie, and because we were both feeling so wretched, so helpless ..."