Gabriel
@keidax
Gabriel
on writing and art
“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” is my favorite of all his refusals—how wild and free, to prefer not to be a little reasonable!
States of Refusal in How to Do Nothing and Housekeeping - Ploughshares
Contemporary wellness culture possesses at its core an assumption that deviant bodies (mad, unwell, sick, disabled, maimed, and anyone designated as such) are expressions of moral degeneracy, and are therefore marked for elimination, and where embodied moral consideration of systemic cruelties is deemed a kind of whiny debasement of spiritual... See more
Jasper Nathaniel • Annihilation With Love
Miles Davis Explains Why Great Art Doesn't Require Suffering: "I've never suffered” #milesdavis
youtube.com“My father's rich, my mama's good-looking, right? And I can play the blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.”
I believe that readers are more receptive to — and even interested in — that which appears strange, foreign, or difficult than we might assume.