once again, i have a different journal now.

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I am committed to embodied experience. This is a highly charged philosophical claim and yet I am not interested in justifying it. I’m interested in illustrating it ( Read more... )

Fanon has passion and the fury at injustice in his writings. And Arendt has... fear. Not often but i am convinced that what I catch glimpses of in her writings is fear. Even terror.

“And I also wonder where we lie, in the end, on the human or even the animal scale.”

“What we lie under?” said Cuzco.

“Yes,” Brown snickered sadly. “I wonder.”
“That’s just it,” said Cuzco. “This time you’ve asked the right question, Brown. What we lie under.”

“A man who trusts cannot be betrayed, only mistaken.” Cally said that was a saying among her people.
Who’s Cally?
Cally was murdered. So were most of her people. (c)

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may the darkness and dreams be with you x

I can’t account for this girl who lives in me and who’s been haunting me for so many years. I catch a glimpse of her in night-stained mirrors, but only if I’m not looking, only if I’m pretending not to look. Every now and then, she fills my eyes with eerie, heavy, darkening silver and then this vivid, feverish silver gets torn out, violently and ( Read more... )

Mental pain is unbearably hot because it scorches everything it touches and yet it is also inhumanly cold because it puts an ice-like, crystalline screen over everything you see. And that’s how you know the real pain: it burns the psyche with the slow ghostly fire and turns your vision into ice.

at some point the question is no longer, “why is someone treated unjustly?”... because there are answers to that, there are always answers, even if they're lame. at some point the real question is, “why are there *exceptions* to that ( Read more... )

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