Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
befuddled
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
flummoxed
Leigh Bardugo • Crooked Kingdom
benighted.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
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
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.