November 27th, 2012
November 9th, 2012

- You know they’s a kind of bird that don’t have legs so it can’t light on nothing but has to stay all its life on its wings in the sky? That’s true. I seen one once, it had died and fallen to earth and it was light-blue colored and its body was tiny as your little finger, that the truth, it had a body was tiny as your little and so light on the palm of your hand it didn’t weigh more than a feather, but its wings spread out this wide but they were transparent, the color of the sky and you could see through them. That’s what they call protection coloring. Camouflage, they call it. You can’t tell those birds from the sky and that’s why the hawks don’t catch them, don’t see them up there in the high blue sky near the Sun! 

- How about in gray weather?

- They fly so high in gray weather the goddam hawks would get dizzy. But those little birds, they don’t have no legs at all and they live their whole lives on the wing, and they sleep on the wind, that’s how they sleep at night, they just spread their wings and go to sleep on the wild like other birds fold their wings and go to sleep on a tree… - They sleep on the wind and -never light on this earth but one time when they die.

- I’d like to be one of those birds.

- : So’d I like to be one of those birds; they’s lots of people would like to be one of those birds and never be- corrupted!

 …

Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending 


- Знаете, есть такая птица - совсем без лапок. Она не может присесть и всю жизнь - в полете. Да-да. Я видел одну такую: она умерла и упала на землю. Вся нежно-голубая, и тельце с ваш мизинец. Да-да, тельце у нее было крохотное, с ваш мизинец, и легкое-легкое: возьмешь на ладонь - легче пуха… Но крылья - с широким размахом, прозрачные, голубые, под цвет неба: насквозь видно. Это называется защитной окраской. Камуфляжем. В небе ее и не углядишь, и ястреб ей нипочем: он просто не замечает ее там, в синем небе, поближе к Солнцу!

- А когда пасмурно?

- А когда пасмурно, они взмывают еще выше - куда уж там проклятым ястребам! И у них совсем нет лапок, у этих маленьких птичек, вся жизнь - на крыльях, и спят на ветре: раскинут ночью крылышки, а постелью им - ветер. Не чета другим птицам - те на ночь складывают крылья и спят на деревьях… А этим птицам - постелью ветер, и они… они никогда не слетают вниз, только мертвыми падают на землю!..

- Хотела бы я быть такой птицей!

- И я хотел бы, как и многие, быть одной из таких птиц, и никогда - никогда - не запятнать себя грязью!


 

 Орфей спускается в ад. Т. Уильямс

A man of words and not of deeds

Is like a garden full of weeds.

And when the weeds begin to grow

It’s like a garden full of snow.

And when the snow begins to fall

It’s like a bird upon the wall.

And when the bird away does fly

It’s like an eagle in the sky.

And when the sky begins to roar

It’s like a lion at the door.

And when the door begins to crack

It’s like a stick across your back.

And when your back begins to smart

It’s like a penknife in your heart.

And when your heart begins to bleed

You’re dead, and dead, and dead indeed.

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

August 9th, 2012
Lovely Audrey Hepburn

Lovely Audrey Hepburn

August 8th, 2012
Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck

Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck

biancsss:

she’s so gorgeous.

(Source: mostlymarilynmonroe, via dollhousexo)

August 7th, 2012
the-mural:

Organize your Books

the-mural:

Organize your Books