Thanatos Generalized v. Green Emergence of Dream

It is the cruelest month but you need not accept that as fact.

Choosing not to accept facts can be like choosing not to accept that actions have consequences, that squirrelly responses to direct questions can decimate whatever momentum toward clarity was building. Lightning in a bottle is a desultory fiction that we seduce ourselves into thinking an improvement on the real live wild thing.

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I miss the clarifying moment that would come in the predawn stillness like you miss sitting on the edge of the tailgate of your father’s pick-up with the garage door up listening to a soft steady rain, kicking the heel of one foot with the toe of the other.

Newness is an affliction. The logic of obsolescent design is a curse. Documenting experience as a precursor and condition of its authenticity is an affliction. Pic or it didn’t happen is a curse.

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it is also “against” death in the sense that it seeks to “defeat death,” to magically, mystically, apotropaically make death die purely through the force of its sentences, presenting its wordings as warding spells to annul the reaper or at least dull his scythe.

J Cohen.

Let Hypnos have a say.