Category Archives: fourteen forms of melancholy
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.”
and endless no/n space but everything’s there
“the view of the universe as a sphere having its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere.”
“Over 45 years ago Susan Sontag wrote that redundancy—an experience of joblessness or irrelevance—was the chief affliction of modern life”
“The Tacoma and the Indianapolis passed a little south of Three Tree Point. … Capt. Coffin pulled down a window and leaned out in the driving rain. The Indianapolis floated by, a dozen squares of light topped by a star. She spoke; three long, lingering blasts. … Capt. Coffin reached for his own whistle cord. Three long blasts. And he let the last blast die away slowly, until it was only a moan in the throat of the whistle. “That’s the last time we pass each other,” he said.”
“In Delaware, there are more than a million registered corporations, meaning there are more corporations than people.”