Still #goals

[breathedout]

I want to stay here forever. I want to eat nothing but omelettes and café au lait. I want never to go out. I want to dream about copulations in the night, and write about them in the day, or vice versa, or both at the same time. I want to remember everything, and hope for nothing, and I want to die a hundred years hence, with a volume of Voltaire under my pillow, and the ghost of an erection still lingering between the sheets.

—Lytton Strachey, letter to Leonard Woolf, March 1 1906, from Genoa

I'm working on archiving my old reading posts from Tumblr. Most of them will be marked "Don't display on reading page" so as not to clog up people's dashes, but I may include the first post from each work/author as an advertisement/walk down memory lane. Head over to my main page for more Strachey (or whatever author I'm currently archiving). Beyond tagging with the year read, I'm not making any effort to replicate original dates of these Tumblr posts; that is just too much work, and I have dated reading records offline. All I really care about is maintaining my commonplace book of quotes & commentary.

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[greywash]

or vice versa, or both at the same time ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[breathedout]

My other favorite Lytton rediscovery: "He seems to live in a sort of futile complacent dream made up of incorrect Greek derivations."