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All grumbling is tantamount to ‘Oh, why is a lily not an oak?
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
if a painting doesn’t work, quit. pivot. there is no point in forcing something to take the shape of something it isn’t.
Because art is a lie, he says.
But art will also save the world. He says that too.
But art will also save the world. He says that too.
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
I wonder what ‘art’ means
so i made a pact with myself; if it scares me, i’ll publish it, regardless of the hollow silence it’d fall into.
happy [belated] birthday rent free.
There is great poetry and power in repetition, in doing the same thing over, and over, and over, and over again.
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
on the power of persistence. on art, as purpose, and not bursts of inspiration
as a writer, even as a child, long before what i wrote began to be published i developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs
the one about ai.
joan didion
Autonomy is the province of full-fledged rational adults, not immature children
Circumscribed Autonomy: Children, Care, and Custody
dehumanise people of colour
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
cannibalism as an act to signal the other
(the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within u.s. slave culture by Vincent Woodward)
Falsehoods I wore
Insult to Injury
this distinction between irrational and unreasonable choices cannot carry this moral load