The Sadness Of Pleasure
Bucharest, Sinai, Bran, Rasnov, 2018
The Sadness Of Pleasure started out as a trip, then a series of blog posts: https://describingspace.ca/2018/10/27/596/. It's since become an odd memory. A mixture of things as they were right before they changed, before covid, before a series of break-ups.
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