Sep 13, 2018
ethiopians, the mountain goats
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ethiopians, the mountain goats
Sim Mycroft and Gregory adopted a litlte girl and she’s very sweet so I let her get a very sweet kitten. Sweet kitten found a way to burrow into the brick porch stairs. I had to destroy the whole staircase to get the sleeping peaceful kitten out of the porch. A realistic cat glitch.
The prophet must prove to you that she is a prophet by telling you unbelievable news, which you will only believe if you already regard her as a prophet. If the news is not unbelievable, then she is just a news source. If the news subsequently becomes true then she was a prophet, but it doesn't matter now that the news is widely available. Cassandra's is a conundrum of the veil. Where is the edge of the new? Where is the edge of belief? Is is possible to believe something truly unbelievable? How does that begin? Is there a crack of light under the door? How do you know to see it as light? Is there an edge of light all around the dark mass of your life up to this moment? Can you see the dark mass as a veil? Can you want it gone? Can you say, flick flack, it's gone? Cassandra can.
Anne Carson, Cassandra Float Can
Both Beal and Asma see religious experience as a kind of horror movie, embodiments of the divine that evoke feelings of terror.
W. Scott Poole, Monsters in America
Many Near Eastern and ancient Indian cosmologies imagine the slaying of a monster as central to the construction of the universe. In many of these mythologies, the body and bones of the slain monster are transformed into the architecture of the cosmos.
Monsters in America, W. Scott Poole
dropping out of high school / sneaking out of windows / playing music to cops that wanted to shut us down / the friends that got locked up / and all those friends that never made it through the night / seemed like we were the only two / that would ever make it through this fucking life
deliberate pretentiousness as a way of Reclaiming the Self
miri @prometheusascendant, during a conversation about Speech Language Pathology Sessions From Hell and the self-loathing that stems from constantly attempting to censor yourself to sound less stilted/pompous/intimidating
These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from it's source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white hot metal spraying out of a fire hose. We can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein