“The hard sphere,” declared the British physicist, Sir James Jeans, “has always a definite position in space; the electron apparently has not. A hard sphere takes up a very definite amount of room, an electron—well, it is probably as meaningless to discuss how much room an electron takes up as it is to discuss how much room a fear, an anxiety, or an uncertainty takes…
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Reading is first and foremost non-reading.
There’s time. And then there isn’t.
“30 seconds after you’re born you have a past.
And 60 seconds after that you start to lie to yourself about it.”
–Mom in horror film who’s about to get wacked
The Bible is maybe the most generic and unfocused self-help tool around. At the very least, it’s out of date.
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What I can change: mean people. I can stay away from them. FULL STORY
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I notice a lot of people on Youtube don’t use fitted sheets. In fact, they don’t use sheets at all.
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“I’m getting on with sawing away the branch I’m sitting on, if only slowly. But I shall manage to lose my sense of security all right.” –Bertolt Brecht FULL STORY
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why do we put so much weight on the surface of our lives?
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Let’s concede that shutting up is a good thing. FULL STORY
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Am I worthy of love or should I have to pay for it? The currency: shells, blood, popcorn, promises. FULL STORY
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The bag of bones and the skin. The thing we dress and clean and feed and stroke and long to have stroked. Pretty simple, stupid even. The bod.
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This movie was made a long time ago, so the old people in the movie are dead. And the young people are old. The children are grownups.
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The Novel: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Character: Patty Berglund
The Diagnosis? TBD
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All those times she refused to carry herself.
It only makes sense that she was being carried.
She doesn’t have to admit it for it to be true.