This Recording

Alex Carnevale

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May 21
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It may seem like we’re moving forward, but we’re just running around in circles.

It may seem like we’re moving forward, but we’re just running around in circles.

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Full of an adolescent longing to create a new present, to say smart and interesting things, to leave behind this life that is lame and boring and provincial, to be something profound.

Full of an adolescent longing to create a new present, to say smart and interesting things, to leave behind this life that is lame and boring and provincial, to be something profound.

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The reason rich men are usually the ones to lead us is because they’re used to it.

The reason rich men are usually the ones to lead us is because they’re used to it.

May 20
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There were other things, too, in the years that followed that were not limited to their appearances, objects and occurrences with whole lives beyond what they seemed.

There were other things, too, in the years that followed that were not limited to their appearances, objects and occurrences with whole lives beyond what they seemed.

May 19
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pictures of success by alice bolin

pictures of success by alice bolin

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Most recently I have relied on this vocabulary in imagined conversations with my Javanese ex-boyfriend following our sudden and unresolved breakup a year ago.

Most recently I have relied on this vocabulary in imagined conversations with my Javanese ex-boyfriend following our sudden and unresolved breakup a year ago.

May 18
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What you have to respect about Tywin Lannister is that he has never even tried to please a woman since his wife died in childbirth.

What you have to respect about Tywin Lannister is that he has never even tried to please a woman since his wife died in childbirth.

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A certain lace dress I owned was not just a lace dress — it was a symbol of something I thought could be conveyed by what I wore, because I was too shy to convey it in speech, a trait that I believe to be not uncommon among the young.

A certain lace dress I owned was not just a lace dress — it was a symbol of something I thought could be conveyed by what I wore, because I was too shy to convey it in speech, a trait that I believe to be not uncommon among the young.

May 17
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At that time he had been satisfying a sensual curiosity in discovering the pleasures of those who live for love alone. He had supposed that he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows also.

At that time he had been satisfying a sensual curiosity in discovering the pleasures of those who live for love alone. He had supposed that he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows also.

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Our first view of the opposite sex is usually determinative. It was Halloween, and I saw a girl I liked dressed as a hobo. She had red hair, and her parents moved her to North Carolina before school started again the next year. I never did tell her how I felt about her, but I did mail her a picture of Theon Greyjoy’s penis.

Our first view of the opposite sex is usually determinative. It was Halloween, and I saw a girl I liked dressed as a hobo. She had red hair, and her parents moved her to North Carolina before school started again the next year. I never did tell her how I felt about her, but I did mail her a picture of Theon Greyjoy’s penis.

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alice bolin & jenny lewis

alice bolin & jenny lewis

May 16
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it all gets put together in different ways depending on where you are

it all gets put together in different ways depending on where you are

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This knowledge ruined his creation, just as all fan service inevitably corrupts the original inspiration.

This knowledge ruined his creation, just as all fan service inevitably corrupts the original inspiration.

May 15
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I’d make a list of the members of the creative department and whose side they’ll surely fall on when lines are drawn, except Ted already fed them margarine toast so it seems like overkill.

I’d make a list of the members of the creative department and whose side they’ll surely fall on when lines are drawn, except Ted already fed them margarine toast so it seems like overkill.

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I never saw my ex-boyfriend while I was home in Yogyakarta last time because he’s a national soccer star with no sense of his own schedule. He tried to fit me in for lunch between his Friday prayers and afternoon practice the day before his big game against Aceh. It started raining and I declined.

I never saw my ex-boyfriend while I was home in Yogyakarta last time because he’s a national soccer star with no sense of his own schedule. He tried to fit me in for lunch between his Friday prayers and afternoon practice the day before his big game against Aceh. It started raining and I declined.