“For some time now I’ve had the feeling that novelists and terrorists are playing a zero-sum game.”
“Interesting. How so?”
“What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to [...]

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You have to hold to what is yours. The world will tear at you, will pick at you, will rise up monstrous and threaten you. But you have to hold to what is yours. The windows of towering tenements will yawn and yell, “Be like this! Be like that!” The [...]

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Those fingers in the greenery are God,
and every leaf that falls on wind a flame;
the tree, then, always breathes and bears a load:
a secret word behind its common name.
How do we speak this language, pure and green,
to leap beyond all superficial signs,
to grasp and then release what is unseen,
until all thought flows from that deeper [...]

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That I am a man,
this I share with other men.
That I see and hear and
that I eat and drink
is what all animals do likewise.
But that I am I is only mine
and belongs to me
and to nobody else;
to no other man
not to an angel nor to God —
except inasmuch
as I am one with Him.
–Meister Eckhart (Fragments)

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“The Sultan Mustafa III asked a saint, “What are the pleasures of this world?” The saint replied, “To eat, drink, and break wind.” This answer annoyed the sultan, who dismissed the saint from his presence. The saint cursed him, saying, “My Emperor, may you eat and drink but nothing more.” And [...]

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i am ever grateful to gutterslut and her bitch for chaining me to the wall in their hovel.

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All the beasts in the subway wore white sox.

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