the day the earth smiled (day 144)

(lanny quarles on fb)

"It is taking on a very Lord of the Flies sort of feeling, as if we are all stuck on an island and only the strongest will survive..."

"It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape."

—Ivy Compton-Burnett, letter to Francis King of June 22, 1969 (via @levistahl)

"...traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel." --Walter Benjamin

virus-whisperer
hemmed in by the paintless planks
& frozen azure

This is not a time-lapse video.

"By most accounts, we can only sense five flavors, which seem to correspond quite elegantly to the inevitable events that mark our lives: sweet, salty, bitter, and sour, and then a fifth flavor, which I feel is somehow synonymous with the category we might label inexplicable, made possible by an amino acid and known by the Japanese as umami." --Deirdre Heekin, Libation (2009)

(pavel hanuš‎ in retro rockets on fb)