"My pale blue star / My rainbow how good it is / To know you are like me"

• I Won't Hurt You - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

"The keeper of the games is asking you / To live the way you always knew / And the keeper of the games says / Don't be afraid 'cause time is on your side"

• The Keeper of the Games - Sagittarius

"I'd like to help you but you're past that / I'd like to help you but it's too late / I'd like to look around the corner just to find what I could see"

• The Answer - The Guess Who

"You can't change me / Into something that I'm not"

• "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." - E. M. Forster, Howards End
• "Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
• "Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Homer, The Iliad
• "You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important." - James Baldwin
• "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this w...

• "Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever towards it; let naught stop you or turn you aside, for mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth"

- evan lynette : from Gaelic eóghan (youth) & Welsh eluned (idol)

• they / sir moss

maudlin • adjective

• self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.

sonorous • adjective

• capable of producing a deep or ringing sound.

sepulchre • noun

• a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

diaphanous • adjective

• (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.

minutiae • noun

• the small, precise, or trivial details of something.

• We were talking about the great things
• that have happened in our lifetimes;
• and I said, “Oh, I suppose the moon landing
• was the greatest thing that has happened
• in my time.” But, of course, we were all lying.
• The truth is the moon landing didn’t mean
• one-tenth as much to me as one night in 1963
• when we lived in a three-room flat in what once had been
• the mansion of some Victorian merchant prince
• (our kitchen had been a clothes closet, I’m sure),
• on a street where by now nobody lived
• who could afford to live anywhere else.
• That night, the three of us, Claudine, Jo...

• sunshine popadelic
• your friendly neighborhood owo
• suspended conversations
• 50s/60s surf rock
• potion seller's strongest potion