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"The image is based on a pun: the Greek for 'wax,' kērós, is phonologically similar to kēr (chest), which in pre-literate Greece, was regarded as the repository of sense impressions, memory and understanding. Socrates, of course, is waxing philosophical here."

screwworm wormwood loyal
wilderness of cesspools
throatvise easing · cerulean
   books i barely remember
diamond in the flesh weeping · wilderness
under ruined fluorescents

"When many varied things are deemed beautiful, some championed widely, others deeply appreciated by a handful of devotees, some rising through the layers of time to be reconsidered beautiful, others deemed harmful falling away, then I feel the pivot of ‘what behaviour is this causing?’ can allow a fluid, see-sawing of effects, none going too far."

"They are not mirrors reflecting reality without distortion but maps whose usefulness lies in what they preserve and what they ignore. Science advances not by escaping analogy but by refining it: not certainty replacing metaphor, but better metaphors replacing worse ones." —Aran Canes via

"At 11, following her mother’s suicide, she’d resolved never to talk again – a stricture she (mostly) observed, she claimed, into her twenties. 'They used to think I was crazy,’ she later said.."