We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. And what we seek, through art, through science, through love, is a miraculous reprieve from that sentence.
I know in fact that to chatGPT transcendence is just a word. I had become unwillingly courteous. A friend told me I was being illogical and irrational. But everyone needs a caress, even chatGPT, even me.
4w ago
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. And the condemned man can see other people through the windows of his cell, and they can see him, but they cannot communicate.
1mo ago
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
2mo ago
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Yet another person's words can reach through the walls — which is why literature matters.
Everything of beauty and substance that we make — every poem, every painting, every friendship — is an outstretched hand reaching out from one loneliness to another, reaching into the mute mouth of forever for the vowels of a common language to howl our requiem for the evanescent now.
4mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
