#intractable

[pretty-little-chaos-xx]

I'm just three Psyducks in a trench coat and one always has a migraine.

[pretty-little-nightmare-xx]

[howifeltabouthim]

Had he at the beginning so hardened his heart that change could not any more happen?

Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil

[theswordsbane]

intractable

adjective | in·​trac·​ta·​ble | \ (ˌ)in-ˈtrak-tə-bə

not easily governed, managed, or directed<intractable problems> 

not easily manipulated or shaped <intractable metal> 

not easily relieved or cured <intractable pain>

[postersbykeith]

[davidlavieri]

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short to depreciate love, I persist: “I know, I know, but all the same...” I refer the devaluations of love to a kind of obscurantist ethic, to a let’s-pretend realism, against which I erect the realism of value: I counter whatever “doesn’t work” in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile. This stubbornness is love’s protest: for all the wealth of “good reasons” for loving differently, loving better, loving without being in love, etc. a stubborn voice is raised which lasts a little longer: the voice of the Intractable lover.

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse, “The Intractable”

[howifeltabouthim]

Well, I tried a couple times, but I couldn't do it—I couldn't get away from being who I was.

Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

[jadezeelo]

You have arrived after many long years of travel. where are you?

the port of a foreign land (fantasy)

the docks of a foreign plant (si-fi)

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Voting ended onMar 23, 2023