Sometimes the noise gets to be too loud. Just so that is ricochets in your skull with the repetition of a stampede. The best you can offer yourself as a reprieve is to disappear into the fray until the bleeting voices become a murmur; hide away until the murmur vanishes altogether.

creatingcivilizations:

Instances occur in which decisions are made from an emanation of power. A distortion of strength, this state bends judgements to the benefit of smaller and smaller circles inward.

In the civilizations I have created a distinction between strength and power is drawn. Strength being defined with an emphasis on the abilities to sustain the self while sharing sustenance exponentially. Power is positioned as a force of nature and so inherent to all without prejudice and independent of price.

Suspended in the waiting time of the coming storm…

Cybernetics and Ghosts from The Uses of Literature / Italo Calvino

“The storyteller began to put forth words, not because they thought others would reply with other, predictable words, but to test the extent to which words could fit with one another, could give birth to one another, in order to extract an explanation of the world from the thread of every possible spoken narrative, and from the arabesque that nouns and verbs, subjects and predicates performed as they unfolded from one another.

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The telling of stories allowed certain relationships among the various elements and not others, and things could happen in a certain order and not in others.

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The immobile world that surrounded tribal man, strewn with signs of the fleeting correspondences between words and things, came to life in the voice of the storyteller, spun out into the flow of a spoken narrative within which each word acquired new values and transmitted them to the ideas and images they defined.  Every animal, every object, every relationship took on beneficial or malign powers that came to be called magical powers but should, rather have been called narrative powers, potentialities contained in the word, in its ability to link itself to other words on the plane of discourse.”

I can feel her drift ever so slightly by a degree off course. So I call her, stressing the point that I’m still here and she’s still relevant.

"She regarded compliments with disgust. They made her feel as though a rather blatantly alluring image of herself were being hacked out with a hatchet, and she was afraid of being deluded by it."

The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre

"… but one can feel affection for somebody, and not want to say so."

The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre

Back and Forth.
Forever

“I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips …

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Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

This fictional short film flips everything you know on its head. It’s a hard watch, but it’s an amazing one.

TRIGGER WARNING: The ending is somewhat disturbing, and involves an action commonly associated with the results of violence and bullying.

This is hard to watch. But makes such a good point

(Source: upworthy)

Earth’s trying to swallow us up

aspire to this.

watch more here. this shit’s awesome