“
if i could do it all again
i would've loved me more
instead of waiting on you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
falling apart doesn't make you weak
a strong heart is capable of breaking
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
you've been holding on
to someone who no longer
deserves your grip
you've lost countless hours of sleep
thinking about someone who doesn't
deserve to be on your mind
you've displayed an amazing ability
to care so deeply unconditionally
and you're beautiful because of that
one day you'll be rewarded
with a love that mirrors your own
but first you must move on
without the person who refuses
to love you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.
”
”
William Shakespeare (King Lear)
“
giving off the appearance of strength while breaking down deep within and yet no one ever knows because being strong often means being silent
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
I could've been your everything
but you didn't have the courage
to love me in the way I needed
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
3:29:50 pm
what is it that you love about him
is it the way he lets you down
incapable of lifting you up
is it the way your heart breaks
when he says something
that shatters your self-esteem
is it the fact he never shows up
when you need him
tell me again
what is there to love
about a man who doesn't love you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
The Fight
the fight to prove yourself
to someone who doesn't deserve you
is a losing battle
what is there to achieve
when the one you want
has nothing to give you in return
where is the benefit
in going to war for someone
who'd rather fight against you
instead of beside you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
delicate yet strong
there's a certain balance
that only a woman like her
can obtain
she knows what she deserves ]and provided anything less
she'll walk away in search of more
she's guarded, sure
but she's ready to open up
to the one who deserves her
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
know your worth
and never communicate
reply or respond to anyone
who can't afford to speak to you
or with you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
you begin to talk like me
your facial expressions like my own
this is when i knew you were mine
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
it's scary how dedicated
you can be to someone
who would rather use their energy
to attempt to destroy you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
having my heart broken helped me understand the true weight of holding on to the wrong person
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
i'd go out and party
then come home to the moon
an empty home
and cold bed
this was no way to live
i needed more
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
after all, in the end. oftentimes tragedy transforms into beauty delightful things occur in the aftermath of chaos just be patient
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
we discover through relationships
that sometimes the person
we fall for cannot comprehend
the love we provide
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
shades and shadows the smell of coffee beans sits in my nostrils the taste of Colombia on my tongue the pages of my favorite book between my fingers my morning bliss has just begun
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
you have been strong for so long cry if you need to scream if it helps
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
sometimes the love you crave can’t be found in the person you want
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
i'm constantly evolving
i just wish you were involved
and a part of this change
i've been doing this without you
but i'm fine
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Always you were drawn to the composite creatures, the broken and reassembled, for that is what you are.
”
”
Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1))
“
holding on to someone
who doesn't care about losing you
causes you to lose yourself
and self-esteem
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
i wish i wish for love like this a love like summer being kissed by the sun a love like winter hugged and covered with snow a love like the night being lit by the moon’s glow
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
so many things i need to work on
so many fucking things i need to change
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
it's the memories
the painful ones
what we remember
poisons the heart
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
loving yourself will save your soul
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
be with me
and only me
choose me always
because I'll always
choose you
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
Kent: Fellow, I know thee.
Oswald: What dost thou know me for?
Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy; worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy addition.
”
”
William Shakespeare
“
who are you when no one is watching
can i trust that person to remain loyal
without my watchful eyes
who are you when my back is turned
can i trust that person to be honest
in my absence
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
A broken soul is like an alabaster box that contains expensive perfume. God recognizes its sweet aroma, our personal composition of failure and frustration, through which He chooses to teach us humility, patience, and hope.
”
”
Alis Cerrahyan
“
I awoke from this nightmare into a freezing cold motel room: the heater had broken at some point during the night, and the fan was now blowing icy air into the room.
At first I tried to keep warm under the crappy motel bedspread by thinking about the man I loved. At the time he was traveling in Europe, and was thus unreachable. I didn't know it yet, but as I lay there, he was traveling with another woman. Does it matter now? I tried hard to feel his body wrapped tightly around mine.
Next I tried to imagine everyone I had ever loved, and everyone who had ever loved me, wrapped around me. I tried to feel that I was the composite of all these people, instead of alone in a shitty motel room with a broken heater somewhere outside of Detroit, a few miles from where Jane's body was dumped thirty-six years ago on a March night just like this one.
'Need each other as much as you can bear,' writes Eileen Myles. 'Everywhere you go in the world.'
I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.
Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.
Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.
”
”
Maggie Nelson (The Red Parts)
“
outgoing, introvert. she, a chameleon capable of fitting in but made to stand out an outgoing introvert if something like that could exist but even in a sea of people she still felt alone
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
A cripple, on the threshold of manhood, returning from the wars with a broken body, with no thought of telling of brave deeds done, but only eager to tell his father that with his own eyes he had seen the man who years ago he had not had the opportunity of seeing, a man whose only claim to remembrance was that he had fired one accurate shot.
A typical son of Garhwal, of that simple and hardy hill-folk; and of that greater India, whose sons only those few who live among them are privileged to know. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their caste or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.
”
”
Jim Corbett (Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag)
“
Monday after 6. awkwardness and tension short questions met with short answers communicating without communication or comprehension no understanding we are no longer who we were before neither friend nor foe nothing, no one just two strangers who used to know one another
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
In this way, as it seems to me, he said: "One might make the same
argument about harmony, lyre and strings, that a harmony is something
invisible, without body, beautiful and divine in the attuned lyre, whereas
the lyre itself and its strings are physical, bodily, composite, earthy and
akin to what is mortal. Then if someone breaks the lyre, cuts or breaks
the strings and then insists, using the same argument as you, that the
harmony must still exist and is not destroyed because it would be impossi-
ble for the lyre and the strings, which are mortal, still to exist when the
strings are broken, and for the harmony, which is akin and of the same
nature as the divine and immortal, to be destroyed before that which is
mortal; he would say that the harmony itself still must exist and that the
wood and the strings must rot before the harmony can suffer. And indeed
Socrates, I think you must have this in mind, that we really do suppose
the soul to be something of this kind; as the body is stretched and held
together by the hot and the cold, the dry and the moist and other such
things, and OUR soul is a mixture and harmony of those things when they
are mixed with each other rightly and in due measure.
”
”
Plato (Phaedo)
“
The horse looked at him and it looked at the dog. He crossed the room and went out in the rain and walked around the side of the building. When he came back he had in his fist a threefoot length of waterpipe and with it he advanced upon the dog. Go on, he shouted. Git. The dog rose moaning and slouched away down the wall and limped out into the yard. When he turned to go back to his blankets it slank past him into the building again. He turned and ran at it with the pipe and it scrabbled away. He followed it. Outside it had stopped at the edge of the road and it stood in the rain looking back. It had perhaps once been a hunting dog, perhaps left for dead in the mountains or by some highwayside. Repository of ten thousand indignities and the harbinger of God knew what. He bent and clawed up a handful of small rocks from the gravel apron and slung them. The dog raised its misshapen head and howled weirdly. He advanced upon it and it set off up the road. He ran after it and threw more rocks and shouted at it and he slung the length of pipe. It went clanging and skittering up the road behind the dog and the dog howled again and began to run, hobbling brokenly on its twisted legs with the strange head agoggle on its neck. As it went it raised its mouth sideways and howled again with a terrible sound. Something not of this earth. As if some awful composite of grief had broke through from the preterite world. It tottered away up the road in the rain on its stricken legs and as it went it howled again and again in its heart’s despair until it was gone from all sight and all sound in the night’s onset.
”
”
Cormac McCarthy (The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2))
“
In the introduction, I wrote that COVID had started a war, and nobody won. Let me amend that. Technology won, specifically, the makers of disruptive new technologies and all those who benefit from them. Before the pandemic, American politicians were shaking their fists at the country’s leading tech companies. Republicans insisted that new media was as hopelessly biased against them as traditional media, and they demanded action. Democrats warned that tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, and Netflix had amassed too much market (and therefore political) power, that citizens had lost control of how these companies use the data they generate, and that the companies should therefore be broken into smaller, less dangerous pieces. European governments led a so-called techlash against the American tech powerhouses, which they accused of violating their customers’ privacy.
COVID didn’t put an end to any of these criticisms, but it reminded policymakers and citizens alike just how indispensable digital technologies have become. Companies survived the pandemic only by allowing wired workers to log in from home. Consumers avoided possible infection by shopping online. Specially made drones helped deliver lifesaving medicine in rich and poor countries alike. Advances in telemedicine helped scientists and doctors understand and fight the virus. Artificial intelligence helped hospitals predict how many beds and ventilators they would need at any one time. A spike in Google searches using phrases that included specific symptoms helped health officials detect outbreaks in places where doctors and hospitals are few and far between. AI played a crucial role in vaccine development by absorbing all available medical literature to identify links between the genetic properties of the virus and the chemical composition and effects of existing drugs.
”
”
Ian Bremmer (The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World)
“
...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every area, from telecommunications to power generation to collateralizing wholesale funding markets for banks, all bear the same ordoliberal imprint. Similarly, the consistent focus on the periphery states’ loss of competitiveness and the need for deep wage and cost reductions therein, while the role of surplus countries in generating the crisis is utterly ignored, speaks to a deeply ordoliberal understanding of economic management. Savers, after all, cannot be sinners. Similarly, the most recent German innovation of a constitutional debt brake (Schuldenbremse) for all EU countries regardless of their business cycles or structural positions, coupled with a new rules-based fiscal treaty as the solution to the crisis, is simply an ever-tighter ordo by another name.
If states have broken the rules, the only possible policy is a diet of strict austerity to bring them back into conformity with the rules, plus automatic sanctions for those who cannot stay within the rules. There are no fallacies of composition, only good and bad policies. And since states, from an ordoliberal viewpoint, cannot be relied upon to provide the necessary austerity because they are prone to capture, we must have rules and an independent monetary authority to ensure that states conform to the ordo imperative; hence, the ECB. Then, and only then, will growth return. In the case of Greece and Italy in 2011, if that meant deposing a few democratically elected governments, then so be it.
The most remarkable thing about this ordoliberalization of Europe is how it replicates the same error often attributed to the Anglo-American economies: the insistence that all developing states follow their liberal instruction sheets to get rich, the so-called Washington Consensus approach to development that we shall discuss shortly. The basic objection made by late-developing states, such as the countries of East Asia, to the Washington Consensus/Anglo-American idea “liberalize and then growth follows” was twofold. First, this understanding mistakes the outcomes of growth, stable public finances, low inflation, cost competitiveness, and so on, for the causes of growth. Second, the liberal path to growth only makes sense if you are an early developer, since you have no competitors—pace the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century and the United States in the nineteenth century. Yet in the contemporary world, development is almost always state led.
”
”
Mark Blyth (Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea)
“
Soon after that, Eno briefly joined a group called the Scratch Orchestra, led by the late British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew. There was one Cardew piece that would be a formative experience for Eno—a piece known as “Paragraph 7,” part of a larger Cardew masterwork called The Great Learning. Explaining “Paragraph 7” could easily take up a book of its own. “Paragraph 7”’s score is designed to be performed by a group of singers, and it can be done by anyone, trained or untrained. The words are from a text by Confucius, broken up into 24 short chunks, each of which has a number. There are only a few simple rules. The number tells the singer how many times to repeat that chunk of text; an additional number tells each singer how many times to repeat it loudly or softly. Each singer chooses a note with which to sing each chunk—any note—with the caveats to not hit the same note twice in a row, and to try to match notes with a note sung by someone else in the group. Each note is held “for the length of a breath,” and each singer goes through the text at his own pace. Despite the seeming vagueness of the score’s few instructions, the piece sounds very similar—and very beautiful—each time it is performed. It starts out in discord, but rapidly and predictably resolves into a tranquil pool of sound. “Paragraph 7,” and 1960s tape loop pieces like Steve Reich’s “It’s Gonna Rain,” sparked Eno’s fascination with music that wasn’t obsessively organized from the start, but instead grew and mutated in intriguing ways from a limited set of initial constraints. “Paragraph 7” also reinforced Eno’s interest in music compositions that seemed to have the capacity to regulate themselves; the idea of a self-regulating system was at the very heart of cybernetics. Another appealing facet of “Paragraph 7” for Eno was that it was both process and product—an elegant and endlessly beguiling process that yielded a lush, calming result. Some of Cage’s pieces, and other process-driven pieces by other avant-gardists, embraced process to the point of extreme fetishism, and the resulting product could be jarring or painful to listen to. “Paragraph 7,” meanwhile, was easier on the ears—a shimmering cloud of sonics. In an essay titled “Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts,” published in Studio International in 1976, a 28-year-old Eno connected his interest in “Paragraph 7” to his interest in cybernetics. He attempted to analyze how the design of the score’s few instructions naturally reduced the “variety” of possible inputs, leading to a remarkably consistent output. In the essay, Eno also wrote about algorithms—a cutting-edge concept for an electronic-music composer to be writing about, in an era when typewriters, not computers, were still en vogue. (In 1976, on the other side of the Atlantic, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were busy building a primitive personal computer in a garage that they called the Apple I.) Eno also talked about the related concept of a “heuristic,” using managerial-cybernetics champion Stafford Beer’s definition. “To use Beer’s example: If you wish to tell someone how to reach the top of a mountain that is shrouded in mist, the heuristic ‘keep going up’ will get him there,” Eno wrote. Eno connected Beer’s concept of a “heuristic” to music. Brecht’s Fluxus scores, for instance, could be described as heuristics.
”
”
Geeta Dayal (Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3 Book 67))
“
You will find your soulmate when you fall for yourself first.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
It's scary how you can do so much for someone and yet they'd rather focus on what you don't do.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
The first one we love is often the one to teach us about pain.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Struggling to find a love in others that I could easily cultivate on my own.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
People who don't feel good about themselves are always ready to make others feel bad about themselves.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Falling apart doesn't make you weak. A strong heart is capable of breaking.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Every time you answer their call or reply to their text, you have to restart the process of moving.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Strong women only intimidate the type of men that'll never be able to comprehend or understand their worth.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
I give silence to your opinions because in my opinion, you are wrong.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
The love you long for must first be cultivated on your own by yourself.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
When I open the book, I turn off the pain.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
If I could do it all again, I would've loved me more instead of waiting on you.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
If women were silent, the world would lose its voice.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
The beauty in being secure with self is that you never have to defend your ideas or your actions with people who don't matter.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
I've gone made and the library is my asylum, my peace of mind, my heaven on earth
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Talking shit about others won't reduce the shit in your life.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Never apologize for saying no to the things you didn't truly want.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Sometimes I hate being this aware.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Your beauty is yours. Your body is yours. You are yours. You don't exist for them.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Disliking you as much as you hate me would require an emotional commitment that you don't deserve.
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
strong women only intimidate the type of men that’ll never be able to comprehend or understand their worth
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
she refused to be anyone’s cup of tea she was more so the finest glass of whiskey
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
you are tougher than your demons you are greater than the pain
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
Coffee and a book.
shades and shadows
the smell of coffee beans
sits in my nostrils
the taste of Colombia on my tongue
the pages of my favorite book between my fingers
my morning bliss has just begun
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)
“
The only images of real value, she thinks, are the rejects – outtakes overwhelmed by the sun or blurred by dust, cropped edges with chaotic lines and broken faces – for the only honest composition inspired by such rupture is one that fails.
”
”
Devika Rege (Quarterlife)
“
Music was the only language I’d chosen. It offered safe harbor to feel confused, depressed, lonely, alive. At the piano, both fluency and blunder were rewarded. Wrong notes became new compositions. Its constancy was infallible, its role in my life uncomplicated. But I didn’t know if, as a language, it could say everything I needed it to, if it held the vocabulary to parse, wrangle, and reveal all that I’d dammed up inside.
”
”
Quiara Alegría Hudes (My Broken Language)
“
These fibrils’ composition largely determines how healthy, flexible, and resistant to degradation the soft tissue is.
”
”
Scott H Hogan (Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body)
“
Page 180:
A fascinating contemporary parallel, and another example of destruction through centralization if a federal union harbors a single disproportionately large power, has been furnished by the short-lived United States of Indonesia. When it was created in December 1949, it was composed of sixteen member states of which one was so large that its subordination without its own consent was impossible …
Page 183:
… if our present unifiers really want union, they must have disunion first. If Europe is to be united under the auspices of the European Council, its participating great powers must first be dissolved to a degree that, as in Switzerland … none of its component units is left with a significant superiority in size and strength over the others.
Page 187:
This is why such attempts at international union as the European Council or the United Nations are doomed to failure if they continue to insist on their present composition. Compromising with their framework a number of unabsorbably great powers, they suffer from the deadly disease of political cancer. To save them it would be necessary to follow Professor Simons who said of the overgrown nation-states that:
‘These monsters of nationalism and mercantilism must be dismantled, both to preserve world order and to protect internal peace. Their powers to wage war and restrict world trade must be sacrificed to some supranational state or league of nations. Their other powers and functions must be diminished in favor of states, provinces, and, in Europe, small nations.’
This is, indeed, the only way by which the problem of international government can be solved. The great powers, those monsters of nationalism, must be broken up and replaced by small states; for, as perhaps even our diplomats will eventually be able to understand, only small states are wise, modest and, above all, weak enough, to accept an authority higher than their own.
Page 190
But war is fortunately not the only means by which great powers can be divided. Engulfed in a swamp of infantile emotionalism, and attaching phenomenal value to the fact that they are big and mighty, they cannot be persuaded to execute their own dissolution. But, being infantile and emotional, they can be tricked into it.
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”
Leopold Kohr (The Breakdown of Nations)
“
As communal and composite creatures, we human beings often symbolize our important relationships in physical ways. Nations create flags to represent their country, and pledging allegiance to those flags displays and reinforces the patriotism of its citizens. Couples exchange rings during a wedding ceremony, embodying their commitments to each other into wearable symbols that become a part of everything they do from then on. These symbols not only help us stay mindful of the fundamental relationships that shape our activity, they actually make those relationships stronger. That same dynamic, then, can be seen in the way sacraments function in the church's worship of God. First through the waters of baptism and thereafter through the bread and the wine of communion, we express and extend our devotion to God in physical ways. To be entirely devoted to God, we must make God a part of everything that we do. What better way to symbolize that than by eating and drinking the representations (i.e., “presenting to us again”) of Christ's broken body and shed blood. Sanctification is about living as a representation of Christ, and we become more mindful that Christ fills us and empowers us spiritually when we celebrate that filling and empowering physically. By recognizing our dependance on God in this way, we demonstrate to ourselves and others how important God is to us; we “worth-ship” God. Because this is an act of “communion,” the very same sacrament that celebrates our dependance on Christ also celebrates our interdependence on one another. It is hard to imagine a better medicine for sin-sick, self-addicted people to take than one that celebrates how much God loves them and calls them to love one another.
”
”
Timothy Crutcher (Becoming Human Again: A Biblical Primer on Entire Sanctification)
“
It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.
”
”
Gordon R. Dickson (Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle, #3))
“
And so his royal Duffleleupagus is seized with the megalomaniacal conceit that he is the contemporary Jesus, the man wandering through the lives of these forlorn people, beaten and broken down by the unbearable thirst of relative deprivation--unless it was all of capitalism, or terrorism, or loneliness, or time. Of course, to compare oneself to Jesus is at least ridiculous, and yet not uninspired extreme narcissism, and although he cannot remember reading it symptomatic of a particularly overt form of latent homosexuality, he could not say for sure he had not read that either. On a cereal box top or as fortune cookie filler? Svevo or Zizek? Soft-core porn spam or in freshman composition?
”
”
Alex Kudera (Fight for Your Long Day)
“
sometimes you just need
to be alone with yourself
and the silence of solitude
in order to figure everything out
”
”
R.H. Sin (A Beautiful Composition of Broken)