Knowing that my LJ can't get much worse ( Read more... )

In the distant or undistant (or, most interesting of all, the middle distant) future there will be a device which can take a tone from inside a person's mind and replicate it in reality. It'll be like a little drum with a very complex shape that can be played at different parts and produce different timbres. So, say, a person will think of a violin ( Read more... )

University of Georgia professor Joel Black: "(if) any human act evokes the aesthetic experience of the sublime, certainly it is the act of murder."

Sometimes people like building little bombs of inhumanity and wrapping them up in intellectual jargon. I know I'm being supra-musty-crusty-fusty at this point, but I might as well take something ( Read more... )

I am fascinated with a particular bone structure at the moment. It's odd for it to be that specific, but it's probably just my subconscious mind gathering its dividends. In my own mind, for the past few months, I've been studying the sexual response itself; I'm confused as whether attempting to self-censor the purely visceral in hopes of curtailing ( Read more... )

Every generation feels that it's the last ( Read more... )

Sorry about the barrage of ugly poetry, I just wanted to put those out there to make their shortcomings as apparent as possible for myslelf. Something readable is on its way, though!

Awake ( Read more... )

You’ve the ruddy palms of acanthus leaves
(Tradition burdens every pair of lungs with this)
And, as if an apocalyptic wheel enflamed the sky
To pockets you’ll rush your pillars
Like shy hands

Man is and Woman is ( Read more... )

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