#gass

[moreandmoreplease]

my belly has woken me up for the third time as i write this. a violent gassy churn rips through my lower belly as i sit whining about how everything is just stuck in this gas giant.

my lower belly is drum tight. it's uncomfortable to lay on in any position and will loudly protest if i press into it too much. something in my lower belly gurgled and i had to force my belly out a little more as it groaned audibly for about a few seconds.

laying on my side is the worst, as all the gas on one side will slowly press into the other making these loud cramping gurgles as they go. any gas that slips out is immediately replaced in a loud crampy gurgle.

ugh.... my belly is too gassy.

[rivka-kopelman]

[rumsteinx]

A commission of Stephane Sejourne and Gabriel Attal I requested.

[polarboiyeahz]

The beginning of William H. Gass’ magnum opus: The Tunnel

[thekushcoast]

https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/

[pangeen]

A medieval castle under the night sky

by Jiri Bezchleba

[kodackwillias105]

[literary-structures]

If, as Wittgenstein thought, ‘philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language,’ then Borges’ prose, at least, performs a precisely similar function, for there is scarcely a story which is not built upon a sophistry, a sophistry so fanatically embraced, so pedantically developed, so soberly defended, it becomes the principal truth in the world his parables create (puzzles, paradoxes, equivocations, and obscure and idle symmetries which appear as menacing laws); and we are compelled to wonder again whether we are awake or asleep, whether we are a dreamer or ourselves a dream, whether art imitates nature or nature mirrors art instead; once more we are required to consider whether things exist only while they are being perceived, whether change can occur, whether time is linear and straight or manifold and curved, whether history repeats, whether space is a place of simple locations, whether words aren’t more real than their referents—whether letters and syllables aren’t magical and full of cabbalistic contents—whether it is universals or particulars which fundamentally exist, whether destiny isn’t in the driver’s seat, what the determinate, orderly consequences of pure chance come to, whether we are the serious playthings of the gods or the amusing commercial enterprises of the devil.

William H. Gass, ‘Imaginary Borges and His Books,’ in Fiction and the Figures of Life (p. 128–9)