analectic:

Two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of Saint-Lô, France, a month after the D-Day invasion, 1944

(Source: collectivehistory)

eyessclosed:

Postcards From 1952 - Explosions in the Sky

Played 63 times.

theparisreview:

INTERVIEWER

Trains appear often in your novels—what do they symbolize?

CLAUDE SIMON

Nothing but trains.

deadmanwatchestheclock:

Excerpt from the color-coded manuscript of La Route des Flandres. For more, see Claude Simon ou l’imagination verticale.

valscrapbook:

anothereviewJohn Vachon Road out of Romney, West Virginia, 1942

deadmanwatchestheclock:

Excerpt from the color-coded manuscript of La Route des Flandres. For more, see Claude Simon ou l’imagination verticale.

yeahthethingis:

Toothpaste For Dinner comic: life hacks bourbon

aseaofquotes:

George Eliot, Adam Bede

xalte:

(drowned in the odor of honeysuckle pt. 1)

xalte:

(drowned in the odor of honeysuckle pt. 2)

"Look at me, I suffer too, but I’m not so weak that I must kill myself with whiskey."
— William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

hausofschlockhausen:

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso.

Cover illustration by Lorraine Louie.
Nonpareil Books, 1979.