April 2012
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so a hermit comes out of the desert.
meets a guy at the edge of town, some kind of vendor or salesman or something. everyone’s really dusty, they’re at the edge of a desert and it’s a long time ago so everyone was dirty anyway.
hermit says to the guy, hey what day is it?
guy tells him. hermit asks him the month and the year too, then stands thinking about it for a while. guy tries to make a smooth exit from...
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sometimes i wonder if my thoughts are my own.
drowning. sharp angles. blue edges. bzzzzzzz…
space is cold, dark. the distance between stars is vast. subatomic distances have the same sense quiet empty grandeur. galaxies are more social. they cluster together in stringy filaments dangling in the universe.
we’re small by comparison, but not meaningless.
life is a renewable resource, though it requires non renewable resources...
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hubris.
i’m looking at my keyboard right now, trying to decide if there’s a way to use it to express my feelings. there’s an interesting shape over the 6^ key, but when i press it the keyboard’s backlight gets brighter. the shape appears on the screen but then it goes away, it doesn’t produce that shape in this text field.
i’m captivated by this row of characters:
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story on signs
you awake, head
throbbing. can
you remember?
nearby, you see
your posessions
mostly unharmed
why are you
here? why did
you come?
in the distance,
a gleaming form
atop the hill.
a ragged path
draws you into
the forest.
at your passing
the trees fall
utterly silent.
overgrown, this
way hasn’t seen
use in an age.
stairs, carved
into the living
rock. familiar?
the...
