thehauntedfuchsia:reading slim, diaphanous jewels of books all mystical and decadent to get past the
thehauntedfuchsia:reading slim, diaphanous jewels of books all mystical and decadent to get past the fog of everyday drudgery, depression, and ever-present distraction. Reading slump be damned. Flower Phantoms is something special - an independent woman forging her own life and way of thinking despite the interference of her brother and fiance. She longs to know what it’s like to be a flower and in that longing, and in the consideration of flowers especially one particular orchid, she finds a mystical, erotic bloom within herself. So in other words she falls in love with a flower. Sometimes it’s like that. A very real book where mystical yearnings are always caught up in deadly dull reality - it’s never a light at the end of the tunnel, never enlightenment, it’s just a matter of what you can cultivate within yourself to live life in a way bearable to you. What she really does is create - her whole journey is one of art, where she is caught up in her heightened sensitivity to things outside her (what is harder for an animal than to consider what it’s like to be a plant), and lets her reason ebb and flow, push and pull, from what she knows, what she imagines, and what she wants. It is also a journey of her learning how to love - something else cultivated and created, like a beautiful flower or a way of thinking. -- source link