( via / me )

"What I ultimately fear is that, much as the elites of 1914 were sufficiently detached from the direct lived experience of European war, so too are the present oligarchs of the world order too buffered from deprivation to actually be properly afraid."

"That Part in the Music

Once loyal to a cruel master,
the dog moves like a man who
not so long ago weighed a lot less
and is still figuring the difference,
what if anything to make of it.
It doesn’t matter, whatever
tenderness she’s known since;
the dog, I mean. They’re called
hesitation wounds, the marks
left where the hand, having meant
to do harm, started to, then
reconsidered. As if a hand
could reconsider. The dog
wants to trust, you can see it
in her eyes, like that part in the music
where it still sounds like snow
used to. There were orchards, still;
meadows. She’ll never be free."

--Carl Phillips via @yrfrenbren.bsky.social

Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag.

"a bloke came down from Sheriffhales walking two goats across the Iron Bridge the black one called Apollo" --@mjohnharrison.bsky.social

All of Tarkovsky's films are available free and restored on Youtube. (via @tanitatikaram.bsky.social)