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E. Hughes, from "My Mother at Twenty-One"

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Lawrence Raab, ‘Marriage’ from What We Don't Know About Each Other (Penguin Books, 1993)

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The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algorithm sits at an easel, squinting, trying to catch Your likeness. But these algorithms are true Renaissance practitioners. Not only portraitists, they’re also psychologists, data-crunchers, and private detectives, extrapolating personality from the evidence of our past actions: from our online histories and, increasingly, from what they can eavesdrop, without any meaningful warrant, in the physical world. From all those toothsome bytes of behavior, they create an image of You.

Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"

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2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

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My camera failed to advance the film and created an interesting composite image

credit

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this too shall pass

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Hanif Abdurraqib, in “Why this poet sees grief as its own kind of spiritual practice”

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Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

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Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata), family Phocidae, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska

photograph by Josh London

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KIM DAEHYUN (MOONASSI) "I WANT AND I DON'T WANT" 원하고 원치 않는다 (DTL) // 2020 [ink and acrylic on paper | 72.2 x 90.9 cm.]

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Rocket Fantastic, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚