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Second Nature.

"...lots of people remember the sort of funny story about a man explaining my own book to me and not the much grimmer business of people talking over/ disbelieving women trying to say things like 'he's trying to kill me,' which is also in the essay." --@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"...to question the meaning of one’s existence implies that one’s existence is secure enough to add meaning to, a thing that is hard to do when you’re trying to stay alive in the first place."

'"the logic of extermination"

Galilean moon lacewing
pearl pilgrimage dawn
leaning spiral
asbestos bilm falling

at last clouds clattering
bent thickly
gave us a good answer

but not the one we needed

Truest thing ever said about writing.