driving at night without working headlights

(pic by lanny quarles on fb)

"recalling a speculative fiction novel of 1975, Barry Malzberg's "Guernica Night." & thinking of how prescient genre fiction has been, especially so-called "science fiction," in penetrating the pious hypocrisies of an era & staring straight through to the skeleton beyond." --@JoyceCarolOates

"People wanted to hear a performance of Silver Apples Of The Moon, but it was never intended to be performed." (via feuilleton)

though fixed, our sovran GLOW
t'wards is plunging, LYRA;
opsablepsic ORBS
less wary of the WASP

stars, too, cherich a PACK.
who's slept the last strange AEON
enthralls our very CODE
to which we bend the KNEE

"...life in the United Kingdom oscillates between a grinding, powerless sense of stasis and stagnation... and the anxiety that protracted crisis will segue into catastrophe... Between the ongoing grind and the oncoming crash, one can also find excitement and distraction in the small events and pseudo-events..."

(via dualvoidanima on tumblr)