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from nowhere. belonging to nothing.

PART 1

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and thus, as always, to traitors

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max as the mouthpiece to ""long john silver""'s letter makes it such a good episode (& season!) ending scene too they are literally growing in power parallel with each other but also the fact that "john silver" much more clearly becomes a vessel not only for [real name redacted] but also for billy & max & a revolution & madi & flint in this finale to set up the work season 4 needs like do you guys understand!! your name is a jointly held asset but this time not only for the walrus crew but an entire community

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It’s the way he surrounds himself in solitude / when his hair grows weary of responsibility / just as prairie grass tires / of hiding a damaged landscape. // He knows the difference between a crutch / and a bowl of soup. A crutch is a wooden stick / a ruined man uses to poke at the world; / a bowl of soup is the mirror he stares into on / Thursday night. //

—The Man With A Hole In His Head by Rick Bursky

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Long John Silver + 🕳

Holes are ontologically parasitic: they are always in something else and cannot exist in isolation.

Black Sails Ep. II • XXVIII • The Dislocated Room by Richard Siken • St. Sebastian by Peter Paul Rubens • XXX • Turing Test_Boundaries by Franny Choi • XXVII • Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson • XXXVIII

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Black Sails XXXVIII + Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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you know of me all i can bear to be known—

Black Sails XXXVIII • Emily Dickinson, A not admitting of the wound • Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas • Jenny Holzer • BS XXV • Adonis, The Wound (trans. by Khaled Mattawa) • BS XXII

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why do you, as a (not) person, need the urca gold? to cover up the large gaping hole that you are?