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Anyone else feel like things have been Very recently? Like it's all just getting a little Too for me
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if you want something done weird you gotta do it yourself
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But I believe, you know, I actually, naturally think, in long, sad, singing lines.
– Renata Adler, Pitch Dark
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"Is this sorcery?" I asked.
"No, my lord, I have never met a djinni, and if I did, I would not trust it to do my bidding. This is a form of alchemy."
He offered an explanation, speaking of his search for tiny pores in the skin of reality, like the holes that worms bore into wood, and how upon finding one he was able to expand and stretch it the way a glassblower turns a dollop of molten glass into a long-necked pipe, and how he then allowed time to flow like water at one mouth while causing it to thicken like syrup at the other.
– Ted Chiang, from “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” Exhalation: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019)
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the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth, morgan parker // the truth the dead know, anne sexton.
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tea isn’t just a drink it’s a handwarmer it’s an experience it’s a love language it’s a friend it’s
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Me alone talking to myself: no cuz I don’t think you bitches really get it
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