unbroken thread

Tiny starry dynamo. Hothouse orchid. In the penumbra.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
- W. H. Auden (via the-rx)

(Source: hm3, via apoplecticskeptic)