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whyisthisinteresting

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.
— Michael Hastings-Black

13h 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.

1d 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.

3w ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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