Cherry blossom season outside and in my book.
🌸🌸🌸

I can't remember making this many notes on a page since college. Tender Is the Night by Fitzgerald is a pleasure.

"In short when a person is always to deceive, it is impossible to be consistent."

Sei Shōnagon's lists create time, one detail upon each other.

"So he never knew what it was exactly that had refreshed him." Baltimore, the city he left, becomes a living stream he drinks from and then forgets. Yet he remains refreshed. Lethe.