a. natasha joukovsky
extracts blog
After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
George Eliot | MIDDLEMARCH
"Full souls are double mirrors, making still
An endless vista of fair things before,
Repeating things behind."
“Full souls are double mirrors, making still
An endless vista of fair things before,
Repeating things behind.”
George Eliot | MIDDLEMARCH
"Art is an old language with a great many artificial affected styles, and sometimes the chief pleasure one gets out of knowing them is the mere sense of knowing."
“Art is an old language with a great many artificial affected styles, and sometimes the chief pleasure one gets out of knowing them is the mere sense of knowing.”