At the end of this transmission will you still remember it?
to the other horizon, or to the evening of the last day that was now setting on the West.
Gregg Lambert • Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy (Incitements)
I want to show you the best poem, the best anything, that I have read in a long, long time. If there is anything aspirational in me, it is to do work like this. This is the kind of beauty I live for. It left me surprised in a way I didn’t really know was possible anymore. @Bryce Taylor is about to be the subject of many meaningful conversations.
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There is a photograph coming at you every few seconds, and hype is the lingua franca. It has become hard to stand still, wrapped in the glory of a single image, as the original viewers of old paintings used to do. The flood of images has increased our access to wonders and at the same time lessened our sense of wonder.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Wish I were being immodest, but I’m not. Cloud Atlas Sextet holds my life, is my life, now I’m a spent firework; but at least I’ve been a firework.