As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life. 

 

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible


William S. Burroughs

There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight.


A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

sonofbukowski:
““The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults, while the dream is being strangled. The nights you fight best are when reason gets kicked in the gut, when the chariots of...

sonofbukowski:

“The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults, while the dream is being strangled. The nights you fight best are when reason gets kicked in the gut, when the chariots of gloom encircle you. The nights you fight best are when the laughter of fools fills the air, when the kiss of death is mistaken for love. The nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screams for your blood. The nights you fight best are on a night like this as you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain, as you rise up against the impossible, as you become a brother to the tender sister of joy and move on…regardless.”    

ahungrymommasfitnessjourney:

sixpenceee:

Scary amounts of rain in Oman. A cyclone more powerful has deluged this major city with nearly three years worth of rainfall in a single day, leaving 11 people dead. (Source)

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What the fuck how do you go outside

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