Not that I am a person of Curiosities, like someone who is really into Emily Strange or fox furs with the horrible heads and claws still on

I mean like there is most certainly a type of girl who is very into All Things Dark, and is very pleased about it. Like a bit too sort of triumphantly idiosyncratic. A bit too yes I am a woman of both the beautiful dresses and the interest in taxidermy, and both the sun and the moon rise and set within me.

I hope I am not like that, but I must say that I was very drawn to this when I went to the British Museum with Simon. Those things are hummingbirds' heads set in gold. I've been thinking about it all day because it reminds me of that spider's eyes. That's the most moody I Have A Thing About Victorian Torture Instruments sentence I ever wrote.