“To be forced into thought is to begin to formulate the event of feeling historical in the present”
-Lauren Berlant
Category Archives: fourteen forms of melancholy
‘Paradoxical’ trait combinations yield particularly low payoffs: individuals with low choosiness but high effort tend to get exploited by their co-players; individuals with high choosiness but low effort waste their time searching for better co-players, which are, however, unlikely to accept them. The positive correlation between choosiness and cooperativeness leads to a positive assortment between cooperative types – an essential feature of all mechanisms that promote cooperation.
The poet Erica Hunt describes love as “a close reading” that “help[s] me invent myself more—-in the future.”
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal.
The pink fairy armadillo is nicknamed the “sand-swimmer” because it is said that it can “burrow through the ground as fast as a fish can swim in the sea.”
“I went to one village and saw 100 corpses, then another village and another 100 corpses. No one paid attention to them. People said that dogs were eating the bodies. Not true, I said. The dogs had long ago been eaten by the people.”
Apalachin (Lenape) – “from where the messenger returned”