life rx 5 mar 24
I'll take you to my dream land
the magician, with a line from Clarice Lispector’s The Chandelier: “Gradually the pang faded. He slackened his lips, cracked his eyes; took off his glasses, his whole physiognomy transformed without them, he acquired an innocent and silly look like a child's; blinking he wiped his wet forehead with a handkerchief, gave a sigh of relief that recalled a gasp; in that instant father, mother, siblings, and women were lost, he was looking around his naked body at the nascent world.”
the aleatory
The babiest baby: a baby. The biggest worm: a noodle. The best way to find the lake: just fn go there. We call it magic, but it’s also just a thing everybody does. Turned the ramen into a heartbeat. Wore stripes with stripes. Illusion is easy to come by because it is honestly the substance of perception. Everything is more interesting than you think. Sometimes, when I’m bored, I think: I’m an animal in a building. Holy shit. Everything is moving. Let magic be ordinary.
the assignment
Find a moment during the day to look in silence from the point just behind your head.
writing prompt
Look up. Describe exactly what you’re looking at, exactly. Do not be sentimental; be a camera. Keep going until it’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever written (won’t take long).
a chune
“Milk Man,” Deerhoof
credits: small spells tarot deck by Rachel Howe
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
“Milk Man” by Deerhoof
Dear diary, I can’t wait. But I don’t know what for! Never could tell the difference between mania and springtime (but I don’t mean that in a “let’s worry about it” way). XS