Saturday, July 22, 2023

( via / me )

"At the end of the trail, it matters whether we dwell in the unknown by choice or by force. Not unlike the difference between solitude and loneliness, the mystery meted by the unknown can only be relished when you are tethered."

"Once Lower Manhattan is underwater, I'm sure we'll all look back fondly on the period when there were approximately 45 media reporters for every 1 climate reporter" --@KateAronoff

A Rough Guide to Every Digital Art Genre We Could Think Of.

"...the great abstractions come whistling hoarsely out in Miss Dietrich's stylized, weary, and monotonous whisper, among the hideous Technicolor flowers, the yellow cratered desert like Gruyère cheese, the beige faces. ...(the Surrealism of this film is really magnificent)... Alas! my poor church, so picturesque, so noble, so inhumanly pious, so intensely dramatic. I really prefer the New Statesman's view, shabby priests counting pesetas on their fingers in dingy cafes before blessing tanks." --Graham Greene on The Garden of Allah

"...looking out the window, sensing the gathering moisture of metrical momentum seeding through my life like condensation saturating a cloud—the weight of that wordless strangeness within and without, and the hope of survival it carried."

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