[lascitasdelashoras]

Horacio Coppola

[mercurytongue]

Catch it if you can. The present is an invisible electron; its lightning path traced faintly on a blackened screen is fleet, and fleeing, and gone.

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

[philosophybits]

“All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments; no it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

[contemptible-scoundrel]

CURATEDTUMBLR-POISONED PRINCESSGIRL: it's actually punk to be of noble blood

INDIE DEVELOPER: check out my new game that takes place in a dimly lit megastructure. the title is one word and the graphics are black and white (except for blood) and look like tv static

POISONOUS MIASMA: *encroaches*

[innerchildabortionclinic]

getting kicked off love island for just swimming in the pool and not talking to anyone

[smsomah]

Otomi village, Mexico, 1950. John Gutmann

[smsomah]

Otomi village, Mexico, 1950. John Gutmann

[austinkleon]

“Think about it (I said, to the fourteen-year-olds). With every other extractive and exploitative industry of the past four hundred years, the process of unraveling and resistance was far more complicated. To end the racialized system of capital called “slavery,” for example, you had to violently revolt, riot, petition, boycott, change minds, change laws, all in order to end one of the most lucrative gravy trains the Western world has ever known. To rein in the unprecedented wealth of the robber baron industrialists at the turn of the twentieth century, you had to regulate their businesses, the banks, and the labor laws themselves, and create the electoral majorities needed to do so. But to seriously damage the billionaire empires that have been built on your attention and are now manipulating your democracies? To achieve that right now? All you guys would need to do is look away.”

— Zadie Smith, “The Dream of the Raised Arm”

[prosoche]

The folklore and terminology that have arisen around these substances give one a good indication of the basic nature of the experience. "Ecstasy" as a name points to the striking qualities of emotional warmth, well being, euphoria, pleasure, joy, and sensuality almost universally reported. The empathy so often reported has a distinctly different feel to it than "sympathy"; the latter is seen as an unconsciousness reaction of feeling the same as someone else. Empathy is sympathy with understanding, with consciousness; you do not forget who you are, even though you can "feel within" (em-patheia) the other. People feel they have true compassion, forgiveness, and understanding for those with whom they have important relationships. Most importantly, in terms of the therapeutic implications, they have empathy and compassion for themselves, for their ordinary, neurotic, childish, struggling persona or ego. The relative absence or attenuation of normal anxiety and fear in these states is perhaps the single most important feature in regard to their therapeutic value. People report being able to think about, talk about, and deal with inner or outer issues that are otherwise avoided because of the anxiety levels normally associated with those issues.

Ralph Metzner "The Nature of the MDMA Experience and Its Role in Healing, Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Practice"

[flgtreepdf]

i was born with the compulsive need to do my own thang

[junk-junk-junction]

裸のラリーズ・Les Rallizes Dénudés

＠立川社会教育会館 (1977年3月12日)

「'77 LIVE」 と題され、CD2枚組でリリースされた公演のフライヤー

[ssegundosombra]

"The past has left images of itself in literary texts, images comparable to those which are imprinted by light on a photosensitive plate. The future alone possesses developers active enough to scan such surfaces perfectly."

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project

[oughtnots]

when your mutual reblogs something with a full page of tags its like. girl (gender neutral) i am filling my mug with coffee and reading this like the morning paper. i am so interested in your thoughts on this post. i love you.

[thirdity]

“Books are complex organisms, and the lines that affected us deeply are the most intense moments of an earthquake that the text provokes in us as readers from the first pages: either one tracks down the fault, and becomes the fault, or the words that seemed written just for us can’t be found, and, if they are, they seem banal, even a cliché.”

— Elena Ferrante, Frantumaglia

[apricops]

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

[godzilla-en-mexico]

Late spring / early summer days

[quotespile]

“What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory.”

— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo