Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
look away from the screen and over at Christie. Randy hands me the joint and I take a toke and close my eyes but I’m so stoned right now that the hit doesn’t do anything, just moves me to the pseudorealization that I am located somewhere beyond communication.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)
Without the light from the moon, the night was so dark he could barely make out the trees until he was almost bumping into them.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
mediocre play watched
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Suddenly you are interested in some new thing
And can’t tell how you got here. Then there is confusion
Even out of happiness, like a smoke —
The words get heavy, some topple over, you break others.
And outlines disappear once again.
John Ashbury, from More Pleasant Adventures
bewilderment,
Brian Dillon • Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
bewilderment
Randi Kreger • Stop Walking on Eggshells
have overdosed on television, I am unresponsive and cyanotic, revive me in your shower of gelid light and walk me through your piazza which is made of elegant slabs of time.