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when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

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and also: “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — simone weil, tr. richard rees

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Erik Nitsche, Asterisk (Furnishing Fabric), L. Anton Maix Fabrics, New York, NY, 1952 [MoMA, New York, NY]

(on the way of Flecha)

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Kim Noble

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God said:

GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE “GUILTY” OR NOT.

I said:

I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!

I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!…

God was silent.

Everything was SILENT.

— Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

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Stunning pine Bonsai in cascade style, photo by 日本瑞祥愛好会.

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Ghost in the machine, Mary Herbert

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Ellie Ga, Classification of A Spit Stain, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 2000, Edition of 25 (pt. 1) (pt. 2 here) (pt. 3 here) (pdf here) [Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY]

unearthing old tumby posts from when i was going through my relatable internet girl phase and wondering why i wasn't euthanized