Reclaiming Reality
Deeply honored to be given a chance to participate in reality.
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilssonx.com“Ideas can be killed," she says, stepping into the airlock.
"How?"
"With better ideas.”
“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
We recoil from the notion that this is it—that this life, with all its flaws and inescapable vulnerabilities, its extreme brevity, and our limited influence over how it unfolds, is the only one we’ll get a shot at. Instead, we mentally fight against the way things are—so that, in the words of the psychotherapist Bruce Tift, “we don’t have to
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