suffering

The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but

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After receiving his prognosis, I can only wonder if Bowie sat alone in a quiet, dark room and listened for a long, dark time to Joy Division, that bitter salve for mortal dread and imminent collapse, that band that he himself inspired. "Lazarus" opens as if he had. Stark and high bass notes clip from "She's

"A gun is the jaws of an idea." These words came to me as I was wrestling to develop my personal ethics about war. I was trying to connect a shooter's intention to a bullet hitting someone. It's rudimentary, but we work within our frameworks as we develop our maturing ideas. This idea about ideology and gun came to me during

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=soR996AcbJQ​ This story from The Moth entitled "Rescue Mission" about a young actress in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in 1988 completely seized me.