“I didn’t respect myself. (Did I love myself?) Now I have really known suffering. And I have survived. I am alone–unloved and without someone to love–the thing I feared most in the world. I have touched bottom. And I survive. I feel unlovable. But I respect that unlovable soldier–struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honorable. I respect myself.”
— Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 – 1980
this is becoming one of my favourite songs by them bc its so emotional….it sounds like it’s abt his lover passing away and wishing he could contact their ghost, bc he feels their presence still but cant see them
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Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, from a suite of 6 “flashlight photographs” taken during a séance with the infamous medium Eva Carrière, ca. 1911
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