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“My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.”

—George MacDonald, Phantastes

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“Even if love was underneath it all, there was a great deal piled on top, and what would you find when you dug down? Not a simple gift, pure gold and shining; instead, something ancient and possibly baneful, like an iron charm rusting among old boys. A tailsman of sorts, this love, but a heavy one; a heavy thing for me to carry around with me, slung on its iron chain around my neck.”

— Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

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Something Different, 1963 (dir. Věra Chytilová)

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The Mirror / Зеркало (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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Spanish painter Maruja Mallo in her studio, 1936

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Arkhip Kuindzhi, Evening in Ukraine, 1878

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Australia: Tiwi islander painted for pukumani Ceremony

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by Marina Fomina

Why give others knowledge of your mind, your thoughts and soul? You wish to be known by others, as if this would make you real. But for every portion you share, a more distorted image of you is created by others in their own minds. The inarguable pain that accompanies human misunderstanding is evidence enough of your existence.

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I’m finally reading Chomsky and Herman’s “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” in full and even 32 years later it still slaps to the highest degree

“In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access by their contribution to reducing the media's costs of acquiring the raw materials of, and producing, news. The large entities that provide this subsidy become "routine" news sources that have privileged access to the gates... in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayers' expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”