the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering.
So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

— Kundera, Milan. Ignorance


@темы: with serpents for arms the lovers are the hydra of the tale