They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
‘This is a quantum universe,’ said Spike, ‘neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.’ ‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’ Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’ ― Jeanette Winterson
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They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever." ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory. I become the earth I set my ear against, for rumours of the future.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Arisen my senses. youtu.be/6VrqR_GfvzE?...
#Music youtu.be/8r31DFrFs5A?...
You are very brave, and I admire and love you.
“For one to be free there must be at least two.” ― Zygmunt Bauman
#StreetArt Banksy
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks #BookSky
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned
I just added 'likers' to my list of people not to trust.
(Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead... I should reach the frontier in about six weeks... This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.)
#Photography Fulvio Roiter
#Photography Fosco Maraini (1953), Fisherman with nets on the sea of Japan.
My soul is in good shape.
You should ask Putin. He's the one behind this delusional project. USA must join EU and crush the Russian economy, including punishing India and other countries still buying their oil which is fueling this act of violence.
“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.” ― Jean Baudrillard, America #Philosophy
American foreign politics led us there. In Europe, we don't trust America anymore after Trump.
Yes, I've read all his books. Otherwise I wouldn't be here.
Jeanette Winterson. #BookSky
#StreetPhotography Dougie Wallace, Mumbai, India. (Candid street photography).
I feel… What do you feel? ... Nothing.
Picasso.
“Yes, we’re men. Men is what we are.” #FilmSky Fight Club (1999), Director: David Fincher, with actors Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf et al.
#StreetArt
“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient #BookSky #FilmSky
#Music The Deer's Cry, Arvo Pärt: Creator Spiritus, Ars Nova Copenhagen · Paul Hillier youtu.be/9mFOXkLLLoo?...
A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair. #Reading
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“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.” ― David Bowie
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 #BookSky
#Photography Małgorzata Sajur
#Photography Martin Usborne, from his series, The Silence of Dogs in Cars.
#Photography
#Photography David Bowie (1976). Courtesy D. Bowie Archive, V & G A Images.
#Photography Ann Ivanina, Rain woman
#Photography Cyril Bourras, from the series, L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être.
In conservation.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Meanwhile on the street.
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold ― William Carlos Williams, 'This Is Just to Say'' from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939. #Poetry
"Don’t let the bastards grind you down." ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale #BookSky
Juvenile. You can do better.
Le monde est grand, mais en nous il est profond comme la mer. (The world is large, but in us it is deep as the sea) ― R. M. Rilke #Poetry
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 #BookSky
#Photography Cristina García Rodero (2001), Nevada, USA. (Black Rock City. Burning Man Festival.) /Magnum Photos
'Concerning 'Waiting for Godot', I asked. 'It means what it says'' she said.
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." ―Samuel Beckett, Murphy #BookSky #Photography Harry Gruyaert (1983), Ireland.
#Photography Aitor Lara
#Words 'mansplaining' [ˈmanspleɪnɪŋ] noun, informal the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
"To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, such is the destiny of us who finds their image in the destiny of water." ― Gaston Bachelard, L'eau et les rêves #BookSky #Photography Georgy Kolosov
#Photography Martin Parr, from "The Last Resort: New Brighton, England 1983-85". /Magnum Photos
Marion Cotillard. #Photography Bruce Weber
What can you do with all that longing, lust?
#Art Liu Bolin
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four #BookSky Not many people are defending this simple truth, despite our experiences and our history. Historians are useless. Literature historians are useless, too.
#StreetArt
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four #BookSky The Orwellian USA.
"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs."
"If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood #BookSky
“Life is probably round.” ― Vincent Van Gogh (letter to his brother, Theo)
#StreetPhotography Sam Ferris
#Music The Cure, Boy's don't Cry. youtu.be/9GkVhgIeGJQ?...
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#Photography Philip Jones Griffiths /Magnum Photos
"All agreed that the amenities of the past couldn’t be restored at once; destruction is an easier, speedier process than reconstruction." ― Albert Camus, The Plague #BookSky
#Photography Sebastião Salgado (1991), Kuwait.
(1939)
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. #Photography René Jacques, L'homme de la nuit.
#Music E.S.T. – Seven Days of Falling / Elevation of Love (Esbjörn Svensson Trio. May you rest in peace, Esbjörn.) youtu.be/fXsZJzg2yTA?...
"Whose diligent shoulders can henceforth sustain this immense and fissured sky, which we fear, for the second time in a long history, will fall on our heads?" ― Michel Serres, The Natural Contract #Environment
#Photography Michael Wolf (1976), Bottrop Edel, Germany.
