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.
Oscar Wilde | THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
"This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul..."