the womb of the universe

a commonplace

[thewomboftheuniverse]

I've found the perfect poem to describe generational trauma.

[thewomboftheuniverse]

Good ideas have no borders

-Tetris (Film)

[thewomboftheuniverse]

TONES AND I - THE KIDS ARE COMING (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

[70sscifiart]

[dearorpheus]

“The gaze…is a powerful thing. When we look at something, we decide to fill our entire existence, however briefly, with that very thing. To fill your whole world with a person, if only for a few seconds, is a potent act. And it can be a dangerous one. Sometimes we are not seen enough, and other times we are seen too thoroughly, we can be exposed, seen through, even devoured. Hunters examine their prey obsessively in order to kill it. The line between desire and elimination, to me, can be so small. But that is who we are. There must be some beauty—and if not beauty, meaning—in that brutal power.”

— Spencer Quong, Survival as a Creative Force: An Interview with Ocean Vuong (via funeral)

[soracities]

“Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962 (ed. Karen V. Kukil)  

[thewomboftheuniverse]

Medusa with the Head of Perseus (2008)

wikipedia

[thewomboftheuniverse]

Only verbs

say it loudly: fuck adverbs!

[thewomboftheuniverse]

When ever my dog farts, she runs out of the room like she is embarrassed.

[firstfullmoon]

“I understood something about identity once,” Ruth said, recalling her training days, “all of us young medical students gaping at the hands of a corpse. That’s where the humanness stays longest—the hands.”

— Raymond Carver, from “Letter,” in All Of Us: The Collected Poems

[thewomboftheuniverse]

Nannies and Tykes, Soho, NYC, 1982. © Richard Sandler

[thewomboftheuniverse]

Subway Kiss, N.Y.C., 1986. © Richard Sandler

[thewomboftheuniverse]

The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark

Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Ford Pinto (1974)

[thewomboftheuniverse]

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

-- Fight Club (Film)

[thewomboftheuniverse]

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos.

-- Brendan Fraser

[camerxn]

Desert irrigation by Milo te Lintelo