The Stars Are Beautiful
by Brakhage

There's a wall there; a great dark wall with holes in it. Behind the wall is an enormous fire of white flame.

The stars are entirely in the eyes of those who are looking at the sky; if no one is looking at the sky, it is entirely dark. The stars in the eyes are very much the same in all eyes, and those looking ( Read more... )

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It's easy to forget because of how awful it is at a human level, but we live in a truly magical world, in a truly magical time in it

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I have literally never seen this, not once, in the 20 years I used livejournal. Until today. That's it. Goodbye

The demise of livejournal services seems relatively imminent. I have used this service for 20 years now. I think going forward I’m going to end up on OneNote. No one else can read but eh, who was anyway?

It’s been fun, lj. It’s a shame what happened to you, what happened to the internet in general. The left libertarians were all correct, Cory ( Read more... )

Could you move at light speed?

"when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes"
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Advertising is eating the real world alive

It was never the Creator’s intention that the world should be a cruel place. We made it so. But we can change it. Just as we can destroy and exploit, so we can rebuild and renew. ‘Change your way of thinking for the kingdom is close at hand’, were John’s opening words. It wasn’t a threat. It was an opportunity.

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