LA REINE & LE VALET by jean-fabien; 5 june 2010, location unknown

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

-Margaret Atwood (via)

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Ye Rin Mok

Two diamonds as wide as earring studs have been made to share the spooky quantum state known as entanglement. The feat, performed at room temperature, blurs the divide between the classical and quantum worlds, since typically the quantum link has been made with much smaller particles at low temperatures.

Entanglement is one of the weird aspects of quantum mechanics, where the fates of two or more particles are intertwined – even when they are physically far apart. Electrons, for example, have been entangled, so that changing the quantum spin of one affects the spins of its entangled partners.

Macroscopic objects, on the other hand, are supposed to mind their own business – flipping one coin shouldn’t force a neighbouring flipped coin to come up heads.

But that’s just what happened with two 3-millimetre-wide diamonds on a lab bench at the University of Oxford. Physicists there led by Ka Chung Lee and Michael Sprague were able to show that the diamonds shared one vibrational state between them.

This feels like you and me.

We are chained.

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Fuco Ueda

I know I’ve been quiet lately but I’ve become completely overwhelmed by the every of all the things that are coming up out of my skin,

the sweetness is constant,

and every every every bee is coming to me.

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Jane Fonda; photographer, date, and location unknown

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

- Anaïs Nin (via)

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Notre Jour Viendra, 2010 (via)

I am exactly the girl who will shoot her mouth off because she wants you to show her what that hole is for.

Yours, devoted,
Jessica

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Jorge Luis Borges, photographer unknown

And yet, and yet … Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

- Jorge Luis Borges, from the essay: “A New Refutation of Time,” 1946 (via)

I think my very, very favorite thing about Borges now is the imagining of holding M close to me so he can read it into my ear in his native tongue.

This is everything about a memory of summer classes in Berkeley, all the heat on my face and mouth, hiding down in the subway waiting for the train, getting dizzy from trying to work out Natural Logic and all its complications in the notebook i got for it special,

and this song streaming into my ears on repeat while the BART train pulled up, ready to take me back to Oakland.

And the heat on my face and mouth,

and mixing up the desire to hear Borges read to me in M’s native tongue,

and the fact that it’s Autumn again, you guys.

It’s Autumn again.

It’s Autumn again.

It’s finally fucking Autumn again.

Yours, devoted,
Jessica

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seattle, wa; date forgotten

If you’ve spent any time perusing my last.fm this weekend you’ll see I’ve been listening to this song a lot.

I think it’s because I’ve finally really, really listened to the lyrics.

They resonate, you guys.

They really, really resonate.

I am so, so, so good now.

I’ve waited so long.

And now I’m good.

peel all my layers off,
i want you to eat my artichoke heart.

I love you.

Yours, devoted,
Jessica

PS: For fun, because I really, really do love you, here is the video that T introduced me to one night so very long ago,

and my heart went POWPOWPOW.

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Michael Donovan

Even though the whole world spun around me at top speed today I had a piece of my heart and mind focused on you.

I am built to take care.

I would like to take care of you.

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(a very tender and personal garrote) photographer unknown

Even given this new development I can’t help myself.

I wonder a lot:

What would he do?

How much would he accept?

Would he let me show him new things?

Does he have new things to show me?

Would it make a difference if I asked him nicely?

Would it make a difference if I begged?

I like to imagine asking him nicely.

I like better to imagine begging him.

When I am imagining he always loves it when I ask him nicely.

When I am imagining he always loves it better when I beg.

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petra., 2011

Sometimes the days when opening our eyes feels like the worst idea we could possibly have turn into some really, really great days.

I was phenomenal today, you guys.

I was so good.

I was so good in every single thing I wanted to do. I didn’t falter once.

Not even a little bit.

And honestly I felt like I was going to vomit when I first woke up.

So, you know. It’s possible:

You can always get awesome when you feel like everything is sucking.

If I can, you can.

Now, let’s celebrate with one of my very favorite Jackson 5 songs.

I know this may not be your usual jonx/jawn (hey Philly, I’m looking at you and giving you a special wink) but if you trust me you’ll listen.

There’s a reason it’s one of my very favorite J5.

I love you.

Yours, devoted,
Jessica

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