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everythingsicily: Riserva dello Zingaro Marzo 2013 - Zingaro Reserve (by Guglielmo Francavilla)

"We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents."

- Maggie O’Farrell; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (via eyestoheart)

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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nprfreshair: For years I’ve been somewhat secretly binging on arguments and essays surrounding literature, books, and the future of the printed word in the digital age. I’ve read howls of distress and songs of nostalgia and bright cheers of encouragement. It’s a virtual cacophony out there. But I’ve always sort of assumed that that cacophony was limited to writers and editors and journalists and those working or naturally interested in fields related to those occupations. Richard Nash’s piece — “What Is the Business of Literature” — on the Virginia Quarterly Review, however, has convinced me how wrongheaded that assumption was. He argues that a conversation about the future of the business of literature is a conversation about the past, present and future of life, full stop. For your weekend reading: “The lack of video, the lack of audio, the lack of ways to change the forking outcomes of plot (what is rather crudely referred to as “interactivity”) is a feature of literature, not a bug. And, as it turns out, books are interactive. They’re recipes for the imagination.”

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everythingsicily: DSC_0586 (by Bengt Nyman)

“What happens in this time and place shaped his life before his life was even conceived” Joe and Mary: A Sicilian-American Love Story

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everythingsicily: savana siciliana (by FedericoPatti)

Born to love

I was born to laughI learned to laugh through my tearsI was born to loveI’m gonna learn to love without fear

Read more: OVER THE RHINE - BORN LYRICS 

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