How far does my ignorance extend? To the ends? To every end? I might be certain of having a hand, but the certainty is merely a brick in the wall of a building I use as my shelter. I might be certain of having a desire for someone or something, but a desire can be…More
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Nevertheless
Nevertheless I have the confidence that life can continue through muck, shit, and what is neither muck nor shit but is instead a recalcitrant stopping-point, a point at which, even if you would not wish to stop, even if you would not dare stop here, you must stop.Nevertheless the company is something fulfilling, the company…More
The Forever of Joy
Sorrow tells us what we want to hear, that the world is small and shall become smaller, that it will shrink even more than it is shrunken now, fold into innumerable wrinkles like a compressed apricot pit, compressed to the size of a mustard grain. We want to hear it because sadness makes the world…More
A.I. Wondering
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay We can be sure that everything that encourages our participation on the internet today is somehow contributing to the development and further refining…More
That Thing on the TV (a short short short)
Simon: Dammit! This thing is smithereens, now. Don: Well, quit messing with it! Why was it so important in the first place? We got to go! This’ll be good for you, too. Simon: There was something on the news, something about colona– Don: Colon! Now that’s not newsworthy! Unless it’s mine! Dr. Hawthorne always have…More
The Breath of Meaninglessness
The breath of meaninglessness comes as easily, as unaccounted for, as graciously as the breath of meaning, both like a breeze across the damp swamp, a breeze that suddenly gives to the stagnant air life, direction, energy. What else do you want out of this, she asked. When she said the words it was…More
not going back
Normal, new or old…is a disaster. This video captures the heart beating inside us in May, 2020.More
144,000
Before that world ended, our project as some of us called it, we felt the horizon closing in on us at first as some distant foreboding, an event we had calculated, could imagine, make plenty of blockbuster films about, but that seemed so distant as though it could never possibly arrive for us, the safe…More
Love the Dust 