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Sunday, October 01, 2023

On life

Life is matter that recombines until it is art.

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The ignorant

Don't elevate the ignorant—educate them!

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We invent pleasures

We invent pleasures like we can patent them for profit.

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Saturday, September 30, 2023

The present moment (Murdoch)

The present moment was a little light travelling in darkness.

Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

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New poems

+15

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Friday, September 29, 2023

The one thing

Death is the one thing they can't take from you.

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Doesn't mean

That they are so frequently wrong doesn't mean I can make them wrong to make myself right.

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Almost always

Zero sum is almost always a failure of imagination.

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Elaboration

What we elaborate are the operations of consciousness.

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How rewarding to know

How rewarding when my words echo someone else's, to know that I am where they have been.

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The status of the individual

Is it only the designation as consumer that has elevated the status of the individual in Western society? Do we fade if we do not buy, if we do not use?

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Ill-suited

Faith is a personal methodology ill-suited to the impersonal.

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What would it be like?

What would it be like to live one's life rather than try to author it?

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Sensibilities

Sensibilities exist to be offended.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Change

The more things change,
the less we embrace change.

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New poems

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Monday, September 25, 2023

Always

Always more nuance.

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The purpose of dream

The purpose of dream seems to be to remind self that it is other.

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Is not

Co-opting control is not the same as being in charge.

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Always & never

Always clarity; never opacity.

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