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Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler.

" 'I walked down a patch in the woods until I came to a corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was on the other side.'

'And was it?' asked Toad.

'No,' said Frog. 'There was only a pine tree, three pebbles and some dry grass.' " --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

"In other words, after 9/11, we needed irony more, not less. We just didn’t need the weak parody of irony that people complained about — that unfeeling, meaningless snark."

"Knee-deep in reflected gold, I wait
for news. Recently, there’s been nothing
but the wish to hang on. Overcome
by the shedding of everything familiar,

there’s nothing left; hope’s been and gone. News
will come, and the river will stop running;
everything familiar will be shed,
and each part will fall to meet its gold reflection."

--Karen Macfarlane via

The Were Wolf Suite.