clawing out at the walls

These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. And owning them made her part of the world, and the world a part of her.

by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (via awritersruminations)

Posted: 2 months ago

Excerpt from alchemical manuscript The Ripley Scroll, XV century. The title reads: ‘An expounding on the signification of the seven seales wherewith the booke of Philosophie is closed.”

Posted: 2 months ago

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

by Jean Cocteau (via cblately)
(via ahuntersheart)

Posted: 2 months ago

P.1 (overleaf) The earliest nature print, on a leaf inserted into a manuscript of Dioscorides copied in Anatolia or northern Syria by Bihnam the Christian, in AD 1228. Whether this leaf is contemporary or was inserted later is still debated by specialists, and no other examples of nature printing from the Islamic world have yet come to light.