this young man tells you he has no illusions and I can see that he means it and that he is right: what illusions should he have after all, those of his parents and his parents’ parents have got us all here in any case, and what promise is there when there is nothing there
if you can get it together to make that every month it’s ok it’s ok everything is there and if you never were and never wanted to be part of something it’s ok it’s ok
and Hume says something about staring into the void well the less famous void the empiricist void which is just sort of middle-sized like a puddle at night and not Sturm und Drang but in any case still too much for Hume he says you have to go and play billiards sometimes
and there really is a parliament of birds they bump into each other and wait until it’s safe though they learned this lesson yesterday they never seem to remember
and this sickness delineates the skeleton the muscles the attitude between them it’s not magical in a depletion for days rest no rest
this flat chemical thing an experiment to enact disaster that enacts disaster is there no psychoanalysis for bioweapons
…in general, you will find the forms and dispositions of mankind to correspond with the nature of the country; for where the land is fertile, soft, and well-watered, and supplied with waters from very elevated situations, so as to be hot in summer and cold in winter, and where the seasons are fine, there the men are fleshy, have ill-formed joints, and are of a humid temperament; they are not disposed to endure labour, and, for the most part, are base in spirit; indolence and sluggishness are visible in them, and to the arts they are dull, and not clever nor acute - Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters and Places
do plants have souls
and the other day a squirrel fell out of a tree do animals make mistakes
the harvest moon produces nothing this season
