Richard Knott

I submit that authentic selfhood is both the bloom out of and the counterpose to the Nevermore of death--that abyss within ourselves.

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." — John Muir

@N0tThatSimple @cljack Bingo! Bingo again!

@cljack Women are funny. Half of them will expect you to know the color of her blouse tonight means no, and the other half will expect you to understand that "no" didn't actually mean no, just be a man, not a little wussy. Kidding, of course. Both of these are the same women.

men are funny because half of them will misinterpret any polite attention as flirting and the other half won't get it unless there's visible nipples

as the evening settles another ordinary day becomes eternity Ogawa

@Tablesalt13 If anyone is scaring or disrespecting you, don't see them. Don't worry about other considerations, or what others might think of you. Safety first.

❗️Canadian pro$titute bans Indians and Pakistanis because they ask for a discount ...and they often refuse to shower before services ... are also "very aggressive" because of their "r@pe culture"

a soft blossom where certainty used to be Aiko

The Great Ziggurat of Ur has towered over the Iraqi desert for over 4,000 years. Sun-dried mud bricks, bound with natural bitumen (asphalt), reinforced with woven reed mats to stop cracking, one of the earliest examples of smart engineering in human history. Ancient builders were on another level. (clip by iggs89)

This is the single greatest paragraph in American literature. It comes at the close of chapter 93 of Moby-Dick. Young Pip, a Black cabin-boy, beloved by the crew of the Pequod, is inadvertently stranded alone on the open sea. The experience of being lost for hours in the middle of those “heartless immensities” drives the boy to insanity. But in that madness, Melville argues here, is a kind of wisdom. Pip had a vision of the inner workings of all things, and it drove him mad. On the first day of my final year in college, my literature professor, Dr. Gaines, asked each of us to name a favorite work of art: song, book, film, it didn’t matter. When my turn came round, I opened a copy of Moby-Dick that I happened to have brought with me and read this passage aloud. By the time I had finished reading, Dr. Gaines was in tears. He said, “Class dismissed.” In all the years I knew him, he could never get through this paragraph. It haunted him. It haunts me.

@sxlxntshxdxw a bloodletting the horizon keeps the night's last secret

bloodletting a mourning horizon; the sun forgot to rise, again

One ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one's life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry. — Rilke, The Poet's Guide to Life

@TheDefiantGhost Soon-Yi was not Woody's adopted daughter. She was adopted by Farrow and Andre Previn.

Woody Allen had sex with his adopted daughter Soon-Yi, Mia Farrow's kid he'd known since she was a child. And this wasn't some innocent romance, it blew up their family when Mia found the nude photos in his apartment. The power imbalance screams grooming to critics, especially since he was playing dad figure in that household for years. Soon-Yi insists it was love and he was never a father to her, but the optics remain disgusting to most. Then later he married his adopted daughter and they together adopted two more daughters, Bechet and Manzie. They tied the knot in Venice in 1997 and built their own family unit, adopting from China and Texas. Hollywood largely shrugged and kept giving him awards and deals. The couple still defends it as consensual adult passion decades later, but it fuels endless accusations of predation. Then a leaked telephone call with his wife Mia proved he r*ped his kids, or at least exposed the horror according to accusers. In the tapes, Mia confronts him as young Dylan walks around "holding her v*gina" in fear, saying Woody hurt her in the attic. Dylan, now adult, stands by every detail of the molestation claims. Woody denies everything as vengeful lies from a bitter ex, with split investigations and no charges. He was friends with Epstein btw. Woody and Soon-Yi were regular dinner guests at Epstein's NYC townhouse for years. Epstein even hooked them up with a private White House tour in 2015 via his connections. Woody called Epstein "charming" with zero regrets.