The Problem with Archetypes
Lately I’ve been reading all of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories, and, looking past the deliciously…
The agnostics contend that pain has evolved blindly as a means of causing us to avoid injury. There…
The agnostics contend that pain has evolved blindly as a means of causing us to avoid injury. There are two things that might be said about the theory: the first is that a few moments’ though will produce half a dozen better ways of achieving the same…
The moon is a shut eye.Abraham Harvey, 16 January 2012 (extemporaneous, as dictated to his father)
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for RivMy friend, I cannot watch you, miles away, intubated, awash with medicine, cordoned amid a hush of mechanical saviors. I cannot sing with you, your unabashed heart brimming with life in dark nights of karaoke and root beer. I would rather have…
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Lord, we cannot lift up our hearts today. The hot breath of chaos draws tears from our eyes. We crouch in silent playgrounds trembling as little ghosts tumble by in wakes of leaves. We stare hollow-eyed as we enumerate the paths of could have lead to…
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In this time of trial I ask not for the emptied skull of my enemy, your intercession in flame and retribution, the cessation of bloody palms, or a salve for all the skin-stripped and salted breathless held souls of America. I do not ask for the return of…
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