Memorable Stuff I Read This Week

Already, November makes a fool of me— . . .
. . . Not a day passes that I pass as belonging here.

— Aria Aber / “Dream with Horse” / Hard Damage

If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? 

It would be this: The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

— Cormac McCarthy / Stella Maris

1. On 4/29 at 4:29pm, text someone I love you. This 

       is what I would like for my birthday each year.

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal / “The April 29th Experiment” / Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly A Memoir

Were you this pessimistic about the world from an early age?

Like it was all sunshine and light prior to pubescence?

I dont know.

I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world’s intentions toward them. There’s a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house.

— Cormac McCarthy / Stella Maris

They’re coming for you, but what are they coming to do? It’s all coming, and at very high speed, but is it good news or bad? If you don’t know the answer, I won’t ruin it for you.

— Will Eno / Wakey, Wakey

Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we’re just bad news. We know that women were condemned as witches because they were mentally unstable but no one has considered the numbers — even few as they might be — of women who were stoned to death for being bright. That I havent wound up chained to a cellar wall or burned at the stake is not a testament to our ascending civility but to our ascending skepticism. If we still believed in witches we’d still be burning them.

— Cormac McCarthy / Stella Maris

… How much
of my yearly tax is spent to bomb
the dirt that birthed me? is a question

I never wanted to consider.

— Aria Aber / Azalea Azalea / Hard Damage

What I’m Listening To: 

So, is this how the Empire dies?
Its constitution withered on the vine
Propped up by the dollar and the drone
Slumped upon a degenerating throne
Kissing the ring of Potus
Under the spell of hypnosis

— The The / “Kissing The Ring Of Potus”