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“Only optimists commit suicide” (Cioran).
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
So this is how a person can come to despise himself – knowing he’s doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
Daniel Keyes • Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)
“What prevents a work from being completed becomes the work itself.”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation

I know the pain of this predicament. In it, everything loses its spontaneity. Everything becomes suspect, self-conscious, calculated, and full of second-guessing. There is no longer any trust. Each little move calls for a countermove; each little remark begs for analysis; the smallest gesture has to be evaluated. This is the pathology of the
... See moreHenri J. M. Nouwen • The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition
The latter is a dysgraphia of disaster, and these disasters arrive by way of the rapid, deliberate, repetitive, and wide circulation on television and social media of Black social, material, and psychic death. This orthography makes domination in/visible and not/visceral. This orthography is an instance of what I am calling the Weather; it
... See moreChristina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
we embark on a mysterious paratactic excursion, with no punctuation and no hint, for what seems an age, that our destination is the dentist’s chair: “we go down… and feel … and wake … and come to the surface … and confuse…” Everything tends toward the sentence’s second and final dash—the first dash, the dentist’s, may as well be any instrument at
... See moreLiterary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
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