Sublime

Grasshopper

and begged forgiveness for their desire to see more.

He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.

My mind is taxing the resources of my brain. A biological structure of this size and complexity can just barely sustain a self-knowing psyche. But the self-knowing psyche is also self-regulating, to an extent. I give my mind full use of what’s available, and restrain it from expanding beyond that. But it’s difficult: I’m cramped inside a bamboo cag

On the one hand Marco made some good arguments, but on the other Derek remembers his college years well enough to know that skill at debate isn’t the same as maturity.

the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we’ve led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable.

indolent

libertine