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“In surfaces, perfection is less interesting. For instance, a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. Because the tea stains add a bit of history. It’s a historical attitude. After all, texts of ancient Greeks come to us in wreckage and I admire that, the combination of layers of time that you have when looking at a papyrus that was produced in the third century BC and then copied and then wrapped around a mummy for a couple hundred years and then discovered and put in a museum and pieced together by nine different gentlemen and put back in the museum and brought out again and photographed and put in a book. All those layers add up to more and more life. You can approximate that in your own life. Stains on clothing.”

“I guess I’ve never felt entirely female, but then probably lots of people don’t. But I think that at different times in my life I located myself in different places on the gender spectrum, and for many years, throughout my thirties which is when I did that pilgrimage, I didn’t have any connection to the female gender. I wouldn’t say I exactly felt like a man, but when you’re talking about yourself you only have these two options. There’s no word for the “floating” gender in which we would all like to rest. The neuter comes up in the unbearable poem, the neuter gender, but that doesn’t really capture it because you don’t feel neuter, you feel just wrong. Wrong vis-à-vis the gender you’re supposed to be in, wrong vis-à-vis the other one, and so what are you? Historically we use man for people of any gender because men win. So it’s useful to do that when cornered.”

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in this terrifying world you continuously have the power to offer someone else a little relief . why would you withhold that. do you remember what a little relief feels like? it feels like a lot

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miscellaneous pit fire pieces

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Tamie Okuyama “From the Moon“

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horse standing in a field facing the camera head on its short legs hold up its round frame as it gazes with unsettling unending determination in its eyes its long hair flows in the wind this horse is driven by a force unknown to me

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my astigmatism lets me see beautiful angels before i drive into oncoming traffic

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Offret, Andrei Tarkovski, 1986

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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I see it a lot in my notes too, the "until the hostages are released Israel will not stop" and I just want you all to finish the damn sentence you genocidal freaks. Israel won't stop what? Say it so that we're all clear.

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lost myself a bit these last few years but am trying to find myself again before i get married later this year...

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Part of the Grid

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Gossip, Elizabeth Catlett, 2005

Inkjet and photolithograph on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

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Motaz posted his final reporting words December 2nd, 2023 - screenshot and links below

Here is the link

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This note was written by a child who was listening in on a bunch of artists discussing art and life.