forwarding to the end

(via)

"Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love." --Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night (2019)

Nadsat + Polari.

time
is what we don't have
Ialdabaoth droogs esteem
time
& all its feints we seem to tame,
all made idols of the hive

time
is what we don't have

"The Nixon debacle felt like Greek tragedy. The Trump debacle, pathetically, feels more like Eugene Ionesco's satirical masterpiece Rhinoceros, in which a few woke souls watch in sardonic horror as their friends and neighbors transform into gross, insensible beasts."