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I just finished reading “Mrs. Dalloway” from Virginia Woolf. It was a challenging read as it’s pretty stream-of-consciousness and has several POVs.

A couple of my favorite lines: “Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit,” and “Hugh was becoming an intolerable ass.”

Woolf committed suicide 15 years and 10 months later after publication.

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Did you know centipedes always have an odd number of pair of legs?

I finally got around to reading Edgar Allen Poe’s short story. I had to look up the word “porphyria,” which, apparently, is an allusion to a genetic disease caused by incest (in his story). But I was also directed in my internet search to “porphyrogenes” – a certain class of butterflies. This was more compelling to paint than the disease.

Porphyrogenes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae,^[1] in which they are placed to tribe Phocidini.^[2] (Wikipedia)