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I conceive a man's body as a sort of fiery mist enmeshed in the cage of the skeleton, and mostly resulting from the circulation of the blood.
— William Butler Yeats, A Vision (1925)

1d ago

I conceive a man's body as a sort of fiery mist enmeshed in the cage of the skeleton, and all that I conceive the whole universe to be; and the body's nerve and blood as rivers or streams of this mist, and all the mind's relations as a congeries of symbols of the body's relations unto the body itself.

3d ago

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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt

The tissue was just hanging there, loose and slack. My skin had seemingly doubled in size. It was drooping, deflated. I'd never seen anything like it, until I realized I had. It looked like the leg of my grandfather when he was 90 years old.

1w ago

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

1mo ago

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A Thread On Absorption And Immersion

those moments when our sudden stupefaction facing the world grows so profound that a pillow of air seems to lodge itself in our throats and we suddenly notice we haven't even taken a breath in tens of seconds.

1mo ago

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