I know that there has been a tremendous loss in the community here.

Though I never knew you personally, I can feel the immense weight of your loss through those whom I do know and through your incredibly important work.

Go in peace. Birjinder Anant.

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There's just one thing I want for Christmas.

In the recent past, we've propped up and otherwise provided aid and comfort to genocidal abominations like Augusto Pinochet in Chile, General Suharto in Indonesia and George Papadopoulos in Greece, to name only a handful. It's only when these tin-pot monsters run afoul of corporate interests that our leaders summon up their righteous indignation. ( Read more... )

what's worse?
never experiencing the greatest passion of your life
or invariably destroying yourself trying to recapture it?

i can't answer that question.

You, darkness, of whom I am born ( Read more... )

So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
His cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight; the air should suffice for his inspiration,
and he should be tipsy with water.

-Emerson


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I do not know what haunts me,
What saddened my mind all day;
An age-old tale confounds me,
A spell I cannot allay.

-Heinrich Heine


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