Harvesting the world for imagery

The world reserve currency of wisdom is betrayal

The best course of action for the Dems this election would have been to hold an open convention - have everyone make bids - and then suddenly have the lights go out in the stadium, spots come up on center stage, flames shoot into the air: "Do you smelllllllll..."!!!

#politics #wwe #therock

Sort of inexplicably, this song makes me burst into tears the moment it starts playing - which, you know, not totally unheard of - except that it happened the first time I heard it at random, BEFORE the lyrics even started...

...the brown note of the spirit?

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There's something uniquely demoralizing about Google setting 7 or 8 pictures to sentimental elevator music, haphazard images of nothing in particular bearing the same inexpressive valence of a damaged car bumper hastily photographed after a modest car accident, and calling that abomination a "story"

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I've had the keenest sense of having awoken from a dream into a wasteland of pleasures for awhile now, though reading this helped that particular framing crystallize into words for the first time.

Tree corpses are more beautiful than ours

This is some Bene Gesserit stuff - I find the use of "ancestral line" particularly evocative.

I was a young great ape once. Now I am an old one. This collage is startling if you suspend your disbelief.

#TeamHominidae

When you part ways with someone, they diverge from the pastiche you hold of them almost immediately, no matter how intimate your knowledge might be. With time, that divergence continues until the person and your simulacrum bear no resemblance beyond the light of their eyes.

Walking through a brisk wind really highlights how fluid dynamics applies to air as well as water

Motion parallax in fog is extremely evocative and modestly foreboding under all circumstances.

Even counting non-scientific, non-field specific terms, I am just amazed by how many words their are. And this is just English!

Recent acquisitions - and really that's what learning a word is, metaphorical empowerment, like adding a knife to your waist band - Apophenia, Apoptosis, and Evulsion.

Sometimes I look at a fine sunny morning and am amazed that anyone can say there's no magic in the world.

But I'm doubly or trebly amazed that anyone needs to say there's MORE magic than what's right in front of them.

Why make shit up?!

The question of whether metaphor constrains or liberates is a super interesting one.

If you're bound to it, it constrains. If you break the bond, it free radicalizes and becomes universal donor.

If you ever want an object lesson in the difference between the tangible stress of physical externalities versus the intangible stress of internal ruminations having a psychotic charge at you in a jail hallway is an easy life hack

A steal or a death sentence? Only one way to find out...

If you can't follow a rule, you can't meaningfully break it.