Bluets // Feb 24, 2010
239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”
240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
-from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
If you read anything in the next month, read this. 240 ruminations on the colour blue. Prettiest thing I have read in ages.
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