For a minute, I thought you were different than the other ones. I wanted to believe it so bad. You hurt me but I still think you’re beautiful. You’re like one of those beautiful animals and I want to cut your head off so I can look at you for a few nights before you start to rot. I could carry your head around in a bag and show it to people. I could ask people if they wanted to see something really beautiful but it’s a secret. They would say ok because everyone says they can keep a secret even when they can’t. That’s when I could show them your fuckin’ head. And when I’m tired of looking at you, I could take the bag and swing it at a wall as hard as I could a lot of times and then you wouldn’t be beautiful anymore and it would feel good because it would be me who made you dead and ugly. Then I would feel safe and free.
— Henry Rollins, Solipsist (via more-or-less-human)
(via nutopiancitizen)
victoriousvocabulary:
PUTRESCENT
[adjective]
1. becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction; in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
2. of or pertaining to putrefaction; vile; corrupt; depraved.
(Source: uh-lay-sin)
victoriousvocabulary:
OCULAR
[adjective]
1. of, pertaining to, or for the eyes.
2. of the nature of an eye.
3. performed or perceived by the eye or eyesight.
Fred Einaudi’s Untitled
(Source: unclegrimace)
victoriousvocabulary:
ANOREXIA MIRABILIS
[noun]
anorexia mirabilis literally means “miraculous lack of appetite”. It refers almost exclusively to women and girls of the Middle Ages who would starve themselves, sometimes to the point of death, in the name of God. The phenomenon is also known by the name inedia prodigiosa (“prodigious fasting”). Anorexia mirabilis differs from the more modern, well-known anorexia nervosa in several distinct ways. In anorexia nervosa, people usually starve themselves to attain a level of thinness, as the disease is associated with body image distortion. By contrast, anorexia mirabilis was frequently coupled with other ascetic practices, such as lifelong virginity, flagellant behavior, sleeping on beds of thorns, and other assorted self-mutilations. It was largely a practice committed by Catholic women, who were often known as “miraculous maids”.