An Existential Life

Life is absurd. Deal with it. visitors

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Knots by R.D Laing

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“Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands. Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death. If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive. Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.”

— Pablo Neruda, “Keeping Quiet,” trans. Alastair Reid

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

The whole world of knowledge is not worth the tears of that little child to ‘dear god.’ I’m not talking about the suffering of grown ups, they ate the apple and to hell with them.

- Brothers Karamazov / Dostoevsky

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Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Haruki Murakami

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Louise Gluck from Ararat 

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’coping’ by audre lorde (1978)

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original post on @thekingofkamaarhbook on instagram.

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He said the quiet part out loud

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What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

[lifeinpoetry]

Refusing the Narrative: Books to Educate Yourself

Riot by Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry - free PDF Against Police Violence by Seven Stories Press - free ebook

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale - free ebook

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States eds. Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price - free ebook

The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence by Laurence Ralph - free until June 6th

Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall - free ebook

Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism - free ebook until June 10th

Twitter thread of links to PDFs/ebooks of fundamental texts

free library of Black history and activism texts

free library of critical race theory texts

free library of Black revolutionary texts

blk thots. - pdf library - for Black and Indigenous folks without institutional academic access

free download of the essay, “To Protect and Serve Whom,” from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Publisher is promising a free ebook version to come

Consider donating to some of the many local organizations and bail funds. If books will decide you in favor here’s a few publishers donating 100% of their proceeds.

Comprehensive list of where to donate  & a list of bail funds for protestors

pizza pi press - 100% of book proceeds go to “different local org & bail funds”

Inside the Castle - $15 access to all ebooks, 100% of money raised goes to support BLM. So if you picked up a free ebook or two previously consider making a donation.

Blush Lit - 100% of chapbook sales will be donated to “Black Visions Collective, Minnesota Freedom Fund, or any other bail fund (just specify at checkout!)“ this week

Broken Sleep Books - fundraiser for Black Lives Matter - multiple prizes from poetry, etc. presses

The Atlas Review - donate to a Black organization based in Minneapolis such as Reclaim the Block or Black Visions Collective and get free books, details are in the linked tweet

Through Clenched Teeth anthology - “all proceeds will be donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, Black Visions Collective, or Reclaim the Block.“

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Angst vor der Angst (Fear of Fear) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1975

Margit Carstensen

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[neoyorzapoteca]

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’”

— Toni Morrison (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)