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  Politics! The trouble was that they had a dictator now, which, according to some people (white), they had never had befo...

    “To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule,...

    Horror has a face and a name... you must make a friend of horror.” To cast out the horror tha...

    “As the ordeal went on, it became clear to certain of these balloonists, observing from above ... how much the moder...

  [...] to resist is not simply an act of refusal, of holding back against a drowning tide; it is to act totally with love in a world of s...

      It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened earlier. Later. Nearer. Farther off. It happened, but not to you. You were...

    How Do We Write Now? The alternate title of this, of course, is how the fuck do we write now. Just as the customary greeting of hello ...

      Gratification to the survivors of daily damnations Thanks to the c...

  Weather, Jenny Offill

  September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire ...

  This violence of landscape, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even these monuments of the past, magnifi...

illustration from: The Wolf And The Sheep, Once Elected, I Will be Vegetarian, Asif Mehmood   ...

Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (also known as "Deportee") The crops are all in and the peaches are rot...

 

  We are gonna need a lot of drinks this New Year's Eve....   Meanwhile, in Washington, Musk’s Department of Governm...

The Trojans dragged the Wooden Horse inside their Gates, consecrated it to Athene, and started wildly celebrating their victory. "Now i...

                         We are all in the dumps For diamonds are trumps   We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Maurice Sendak

 quantifying complicity/strongman   Part of the great political crisis we face in t...