Tag Archives: Quotes

beyond anyone’s control

Posted on August 22, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.” — Dwight Garner, review of Jared Kushner’s Breaking History / The New York Times “She attaches her gaze to … Continue reading →

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rhyme schemes rhizome

Posted on August 21, 2022 by istsfor manity

She is Splooting on the Sward (When Shooting Won’t Do) One strong throat emerges to tell the straitjacket-story of a gifted and complicated mandible: Her despots are both deeper and weirder—splooting rib-deep on American fangs. Her handguns—blue steel euphonies—flexible, transcend … Continue reading →

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home is everywhere

Posted on August 15, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?” — Ada Limón / “The Hurting Kind” “… economic injustice will stop the moment we want it to stop, and no sooner, and if we genuinely … Continue reading →

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the circular motion

Posted on August 12, 2022 by istsfor manity

octagonal agonals lost in the notionof the circular motionof your last rectagularwords What I’m Reading: “People piss me offspecifically and species-wise.” — Maureen N. McLean / “Come Again / Woods”

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speed reduced ahead

Posted on August 9, 2022 by istsfor manity

SOLASTALGIA II What I’m Reading: “Didn’t they know that the land was God itself, the sun and moon and rain, that it was all God?” —Ottessa Moshfegh / Lapvona

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can’t keep pretending

Posted on August 3, 2022 by istsfor manity

We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction Schools and universities all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a … Continue reading →

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end of maintained trail

Posted on August 2, 2022 by istsfor manity

SOLASTALGIA What I’m Reading: “Maybe democracy worked for restaurant reviews and movie ratings, but boy, was it creating problems in this case. What were all those dystopias she’d had to read about in high school, concerning the individual trampled by … Continue reading →

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no nazi homophobes

Posted on August 1, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “… noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Stride Toward Freedom “Our modern capitalist economy was born thanks … Continue reading →

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looking for a way

Posted on July 25, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “…nothing drives up the price of oil quite like war…” — Naomi Klein / No Is Not Enough “Climate grief and coronavirus grief feel strikingly parallel. The solutions to both problems rely on … Continue reading →

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i pass gin

Posted on July 19, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has.” — John Trudell / Santee Dakota activist, artist, and poet (1946–2015) “Given that we have left it so late, can … Continue reading →

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