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It was a good ride.

"Lispector:

'Everything could be fiercely summed up in never emitting a first scream—a first scream unleashes all the others, the first scream at birth unleashes a life, if I screamed I would awaken thousands of screaming beings who would loose upon the rooftops a chorus of screams and horror.

   If I screamed I would unleash the existence—the existence of what? the existence of the world. With reverence I feared the existence of the world for me.'

(The Passion According to G.H., trans. Idra Novey)"

—@yoonkim.bsky.social

"At least a dozen cultures, from Mongolia to the Philippines, are trying to save themselves—that is, to reconnect with their heritage and identity in the face of opposition and oppression—by reviving the ancient art of calligraphy, sometimes on paper with a brush, sometimes on palm leaves with a stylus, sometimes on bamboo with an engraving tool."

pouring down vacuum · periscope up
   nothing to see in the streets
slats of dark · the clock's slated
   route & we all go
on this foul ferry · through the four walls
   & call it arrival

"I hope he's kept away from young women..."