A Prelude: On Haunting
A Trip to the Museum; four journal entries on past loves. Dear reader, I must apologise for neglecting you. I have been swamped with dissertation work in my final few weeks of university. I thought I'd share with you a prelude to my next piece titled True Hauntings, Past Loves and Bad Dates; what are ghosts? which should be published next week. We will discuss the desperate and mortifying quest for human connection across death, dating apps and long-distance. This is in the context of a recent visit I made to a psychic medium and the release of a third (controversial) instalment of Sam Levinson's Euphoria . Here are four, short excerpts from my journal-- not required reading for my next essay, of course, but they will provide the groundwork from which we can catapult ourselves into a spiral on those we've loved deeply and lost (in one way or another). These are moments of poetry and prose that I've preserved like little specimens in formaldehyde, because they will a...
