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Lāhainā Noon.

The other side of American Gothic.

"What I’ve never seen is hatred produce wisdom. I’ve seen it produce energy. I’ve seen it produce action. I’ve seen it produce revenge. But I’ve never seen it leave a human being more whole." (via)

The Empty Church.

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First same-sex couple in recorded history.

"Show two-thirds of it dissolving into mist and you have given the viewer the rest of the mountain to build, larger and more alive, inside themselves." —Tōan via

The House Fire That Launched Robert Silverberg's Golden Age.

"Trump may be more porcine than equine—a Circe product. Even so, after all this time, we should have been able to spot a Trojan horse."

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This Fastidious Erasure.

"One after another..."

"For every artist whose estate becomes a foundation, there are hundreds whose work disperses, deteriorates, gets stored in conditions that damage it, gets given away to people who don’t know what they have, gets sold cheaply and without coordination in the months after death when no one is thinking clearly, gets argued over by family members who disagree about its value, or simply sits in a house in Wiltshire, doing nothing, slowly." —@blackbirdrook via

Borzoi Puppies.

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Tatianna Blass - Penelope.

"What if the Qur'an didn't even intend to speak about 'virgins', as sexual objects, and instead was echoing language found in descriptions of Sasanian banquets?" —David Bannoura via

Psychic Readings.

"the beginning of sentience in a phone"

without Thoth to gather
thoughts chickenscratched inchmeal
we are just Jestocaust
at the jedburgh erg crossing

highway of death
taken out of season

water in motion
always means something

"We should not allow ourselves to be imprisoned by the moribund political fashions of 1848."

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An afternoon spent printing in my sketchbook.

"home is far"

therblig-shy skein
unfinished finish
riant rule of thumb

journeying heart knows this

"The silence on the floor of my house is all the questions and all the answers that have been known in the world.."

"Actually I saw my book as more of a mood piece, using myself as the protagonist the way you eat chickpeas for dinner when a can of chickpeas is what you have around." —Meaghan Garvey via

Ideal Odyssey movie adaptation already exists.