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telling my father by James Crews
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they should invent a grief that doesn’t define you in new and strange ways for the rest of your life
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“I was like a physicist who believes in quarks intellectually, but doesn’t feel quarks. I could make all the Thomist arguments about God and discuss Spinoza and say all the right things. But I didn’t feel God. It was not a thing of the heart for me. I could defend the idea of God but it was all from hearsay evidence, a lawyer would call it. None of it had any emotional truth for me. I mean, there was a place in me that wanted God to be in it, but it was empty.”
— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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Bumper sticker I saw on my walk today
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i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.
“You are not better than Icarus just because you have the benefit of his example” go off
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Some gold advice from Margaret Atwood from her Master Class on creative writing trailer.
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Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !
"anything worth doing is worth doing badly"............."not failing as he fell but just coming to the end of his triumph"......goodnight (it's noon)
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Trista Mateer, from The Dogs I Have Kissed
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— Hanif Abdurraqib, from “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us.”
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Lucille Clifton, 'i am running into a new year'
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Selected Books of the Beloved, Gregory Orr
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“the ending is always the same”
war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology