marginalia

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    Photograph by Andre Kertesz

I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself.  In my arranging and rearranging of images I’m like a child using newspaper to dress up as a king, and in the way I create rhythm with a series of words I’m like a lunatic adorning my hair with dried flowers that are still alive in my dreams.

—Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet