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"All the other advantages of instruction are without interest."

"FOR A BROTHER IN ASIA

The self-transfigured
guns
ascend to heaven,

ten
bombers yawn,

a quick-firing flowers,
certain as peace,

a handful of rice
expires as your friend."

--Hamburger's Celan

"The Folk Horror Revival, which started in the early to mid 2010s, really picked up speed around the end of the decade." [Her] question about what might be the American equivalent is worth pondering. Two thoughts: our best folk horror novel is hiding in plain sight: Toni Morrison's Beloved. Second, there is an active haunted-house tourist circuit, a busy subculture for ghost hunting as well as an adjacent one that is urban ruin-photography/exploring (for which Detroit is famous, but ruins are everywhere, outside the few cities people are still flocking to); but i think the chief form that this takes here is "Liminalcore"...

"We desperately need access to values and wisdom..."