“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”
— Oscar Wilde
Charles Turner
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Let everything happen to you:
beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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I’m in Amsterdam and this 1967 Dutch edition of The Hobbit proved absolutely irresistible
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Samuel R. Delany "The Orchid" (1971), experimental film shot on the lower West Side of Manhattan, a nod to the poetic cinema of Jean Cocteau. The film features a non-professional cast, drawn from the writer's friends in the sci-fi and comic book world: ubu.com/film/delany_or
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How I feel autumn’s ache.
—Virginia Woolf
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Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,
Just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once:
to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies (IX)
📷 Josef Sudek, Untitled Woods. 1960's
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Edvard Munch's sunsets for #FaustianFriday
"I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood... Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature."
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björk talking about aphex twin is the cutest thing you'll hear today
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finding peace by finally acknowledging there’s no self-sustaining tupperware organizing system. the shelf or drawer will always slip into disarray and simply needs periodic maintenance to keep it functioning
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Okay! As promised, this brain fog piece now has an audio version (read by me), which I hope will help those whose brain fog makes reading hard.
(On the article page, just beneath the lead image, find the long grey box and click the Play symbol. theatlantic.com/health/archive)
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As I age, I become more and more like a Skyrim NPC, muttering the same lines of dialogue to myself over & over again, sitting down and getting back up for no reason, going to bed in all my clothes, so on and so forth
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Godard’s legacy is a body of work devoted to almost childlike bewilderment: “Why is there so much suffering in the world?”
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This, from the Nick Cave interview in yesterday’s Observer has floored me…
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Happy September from Allen Ginsberg:
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"The wisdom of the plants: even when they have roots, there is always an outside where they form a rhizome with something else—with the wind, an animal, human beings..."
--Deleuze and Guattari
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PART I: Connective Tissue & Immune System
#LongCOVID is shedding light on long-ignored, physiological aspects of Post-Viral syndromes (e.g. #MECFS)
One fascinating area is the role of connective tissue (and Ehler Danlos Syndrome #EDS) in their pathophysiologies.
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‘Wild Flowers of Late Summer and Autumn’
by M de Sausmarez (not a Ladybird artist but I’m allowed a day off)
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‘Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.’
Italo Calvino,
Invisible Cities
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It is a last remnant of a once intact self that is now somehow scattered.
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There are only two tragedies
in life:
one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde
Paul on
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mid-year status check
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Production on Succession Season 4 has begun.
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It’s called history, T. They say it repeats itself. The first time it’s really sad but then the second time it’s supposed to be kinda funny.
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Samuel Beckett on the set of Film, New York City, 1964. Photograph: Steve Schapiro.
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Preprint with and showing massive #microclots and platelet hyperactivation in #MECFS, much as with #LongCovid #TeamClots #pwME #pwLC
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Thank you and for the opportunity to talk about my daughter Maeve and the need to reset the agenda on ME. has started the process of change but there’s a long way to go.
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ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) affects more women than men. The Health Secretary @sajidjavid has set out a plan to do more to tackle ME. We speak to @TimesONeill, who last year lost his eldest daughter Maeve, after suffering from ME since her teens: bbc.in/38H5wFb
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🧵Gulf War Syndrome & Simon Wessely
"For 30 years they have been disowned, ignored and lied to by consecutive governments, with no positive answers to their questions about exposure to toxic substances and gases & the affect it had on them"
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Sending emails from bed like a dying king
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I'm a 50-year-old gay man. I lived through the anti-gay moral panic of the 80s and the many battles against discriminatory legislation and social injustice of the 90s and 2000s, and I'm here to tell you that what is being done to trans people today is what was done to us then.
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Having a Cocteau twins summer where no one can understand what I say but those who choose to listen are enchanted
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Jack Kerouac
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“The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.”
—Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.
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Seeing a lot of goths about again, which is bad news.
Goths are the harbinger of recession whether its the 2008 recession, the 1980s recession or 5th century Rome and the collapse of the empire.
They may not be the cause but they are the warning we should heed
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