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The universe is not a prison, nor yet a playground; it is a loom, and we are simultaneously the shuttle and the thread. What we call fate is only pattern seen from outside.

— Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
4w ago

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

1mo 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.

4mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Antimatter Road Trip Edition

Most objects we transport around the world tolerate their containers. They sit in them, press against them, get held by them. Even the most sensitive cargo, from organs to antiquities, vaccines to wild animals, exist in material continuity with the surrounding world. Antimatter is categorically other. It's not fragile in a way that patience and care can manage simply, because it's constitutively incompatible with everything that exists.

5mo ago

The metaphor of the library is the metaphor of the world. We search for the infinite in the finite, and we find it nowhere but in language itself.

5mo ago
themarginalian.org
Where Love Goes When It Goes

It is also a peculiar question, lexically and syntactically, for it presupposes two things about the life of the heart: a movement and a destination, as if love rose to its feet one day and headed for an elsewhere, left without a map, got lost, lost to seasons and cycles, lost like the mammoth and the human dorsal fin and the surnames of millennia of daughters.

6mo ago

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