The World Has Always Been On Fire
The end of the world used to be quite seductive to her,
until she considered that the obsession with the apocalypse is actually a longing that those who are dissatisfied with the world have for something different.
until she considered that the obsession with the apocalypse is actually a longing that those who are dissatisfied with the world have for something different.
Allegra Preuss • The Water in the Wood
is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit about our minds.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
Imagine that the earth we are experiencing now is like a star.
Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
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Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
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