doom and glory

“An artist,” James Baldwin told the interviewer in his historic 1963 LIFE profile, “is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/11/01/the-gospel-of-james-baldwin-meshell-ndegeocello/?mc_cid=7f8ef83e78&mc_eid=bbeb038de6

Getting Older

"My hygiene has improved, and I'm 7 percent more self-assured."

oneohtrix point never

http://www.vice.com/read/fuck-music-lets-talk-about-feelings-an-interview-with-oneohtrix-point-never

 

Nonsense

The wonder of [nonsense] is not that it makes something out of nothing, or that it is without sense-but actually that it's exploding with sense. It's not for when you have nothing to say, but when you have many things to say all at once

 

Jesse Ball, by Heart

on being (as opposed to doing)

Each minute is a knife blade of separation: How to trust our life to the blade that may slit our throat? The remedy lies in finding a balm that heals forever the wound inflicted upon us by time's hours and minutes... Almost from the moment of birth, humans flee from themselves. Where do they go? In endless search of themselves... is there no way out? Yes, there is: At certain moments time opens just a crack and allows us to glimpse the other side. These moments are experiences of the merging of subject and object, of I am and you are, of now and forever, here, and there.

 

Vice, So Sad Today Column, though generally more light-hearted than the above quote

try this instead: http://www.vice.com/read/im-not-glamorizing-depression-im-staying-alive-advice-from-so-sad-today-193'

 

 

Utopia Realized

Godelieva's story sounded like "utopia realized: everything is neat and clean and terrible."

-The Death Treatment, Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, June 22, 2015