002712

Words but rarely mean what we mean by employing them. As a conveyance. Of meaning. The car, you see, is not the driver. The driver is not the person. The person is not the human being. The human is not the [extended] being. And the extended being… has little,...

002713

Those who leap into the rivers and lakes, the ocean… know the water in their way. But there is another way. The way of those who’ve long lived in the desert. And this is to say nothing of moonlight. Or the intimacies that defy our delusions of distinction...

002715

I’ve seen similar (and far more complex) behavior in spiders… and other invertebrates. “My friend watched an orb weaver who had snagged a wasp in her web. After several unsuccessful attempts at subduing this dangerous prey, the spider retreated to...

002716

Who we know someone ‘as’ is, at least partly a function of how or why we came to know them.

002717

There’s probably something in there, but the artifice is so profuse that I’ve no idea what it might be.

002718

Found someone’s debit card. They put tape on the back with their PIN on it. Because, you know, you don’t want to forget that PIN.