Impromptu 

When from your gems of thought I turn
To those pure orbs, your heart to learn,
I scarce know which to prize most high —
The bright i-dea, or the bright dear-eye. 

Edgar Allan Poe

  

Σημείωση: Η φωτογραφία είναι το "Portrait Dámy"  του γάλλου σουρεαλιστή Maurice Tabard.

Tsundoku*

 the soul reaching towards infinity 

* the condition of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. Also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf.

** I've just realised that the very similar piles I've got at home have grown taller – how on earth did that happen?