E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard
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Midnight Pals: The Weed that Makes you Depressed
Algernon Blackwood: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the haunted weed
Blackwood: so there's this weed that's SO dank
Blackwood: that if you smoke it
Blackwood: a ghost will get you
Poe: yeah that is
Poe: that is pretty dank
Blackwood: see, this weed is SO DANK that a humor writer smoked it
Blackwood: and he just got super depressed
Blackwood: he couldn't even reassure his readers that he was not making it up
Blackwood: so this humorist smoked the weed that makes you depressed, says life seems harsh and cruel, says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Blackwood: John Silence says, 'Treatment is simple.'
Blackwood: 'The Great humorist Pagliacci is in town tonight.'
Fitz James O'Brien: hey guys
O'Brien: check it out, i got the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: why do you even have that?
Poe: how is there possibly a market for that?
Franz Kafka: can i try it?
O'Brien: no no no franz this is too strong for you
O'Brien: only someone naturally ebullient and hilarious can handle this dank nug
Kim Newman: [bowtie spinning] heyza heyza i just flew in from albaquerie and boy are my arms tired
Newman: what's this about dank nugs
King: look! it's kim newman!
Poe: oh good i could use a laugh
Kim Newman: siiighhh
King: you feeling ok, kim?
Newman: i dunno, i just haven't been my usual jokey self
Newman: i've just been so depressed
Newman: it must be because i smoked the weed that makes you depressed
Newman: so i smoked the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: you smoked the what?
Newman: the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: the weed that makes you depressed?
Newman: yeah the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: excuse me?
Newman: i gotta tell you about this weed
Newman: it made me depressed
Blackwood: so anyway John Silence has to fight the weed that makes you depressed
Blackwood: but it makes him see visions of phantom cats
Lovecraft: i don't understand how this would make anyone depressed
Lovecraft: seems pretty great to me, honestly!
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Julien Gérardin - Coucher de soleil, 20/12/1908
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[...] develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 26th December 1958
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There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.
Anne Sexton, from ‘A Self-Portrait in Letters’ — Brother Dennis Farrell, 26th December 1962
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i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing
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Texts From Superheroes
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Merry Christmas
I know you’ll see this, it’s for you
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every time i make a mistake im like theyre going to put me down like a sick dog
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"just stop thinking about it" my brother in christ, if I could stop thinking about it I would
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its the last month of 2023 so i’m just gonna say it: what the absolute fuck was that
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