Worst Thing

#June23

[depsidase]

[skoolz-of-thotz]

[stoicmike]

If I was born in some other country I would be waving some other flag. -- Michael Lipsey

[probuccalfat1]

i’m going insane over william shatner’s experience in space

[you-are-another-me]

[geminisee]

you have more in common with the average citizen in china than any us politician

[rubberduckymondays]

[nuz1970]

[philosophybits]

“The whole of existence makes me anxious, from the smallest fly to the mysteries of the Incarnation. It’s all inexplicable, myself most of all. For me all existence is contaminated, myself most of all. Great is my distress, unlimited.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Aerial view of Dusky Sound near the southwestern tip of South Island in New Zealand, September 1971.Photograph by Gordon Gahan, National Geographic

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Thank you my lifelong afternoon late in this season of no age thank you for my windows above the rivers thank you for the true love you brought me to when it was time at last and for words that come out of silence and take me by surprise and have carried me through the clear day without once turning to look at me

[…]

thank you whole body and hand and eye thank you for sights and moments known only to me who will not see them again except in my mind’s eye where they have not changed thank you for showing me the morning stars

W.S. Merwin, from “Variation on a Theme,” in The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

[charnel-grounds]

Art from a “Grand Guignol” poster

source

[mockva]

[cid5]

Kamerad Feldgrau fährt in Urlaub!" - "Comrade Field-Grey goes on leave!"

Ca. 1916.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[radical-revolution]

[theweirdwideweb]

[the-framed-maelstrom]

What the Roman enjoys in the arena, the Christian in the ecstasies of the cross, the Spaniard at the sight of the faggot and stake, or of the bull-fight, the present-day Japanese who presses his way to the tragedy, the workman of the Parisian suburbs who has a homesickness for bloody revolutions, the Wagnerienne who, with unhinged will, “undergoes” the performance of “Tristan and Isolde”, what all these enjoy, and strive with mysterious ardour to drink in, is the philtre of the great Circe “cruelty”.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Nothing is forever, Heidrun Rathgeb

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“But, in fact, impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life—difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.” ― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying