Hubris
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Erotica & Longing During the Plague
“losing all my leaves soon i will resemble a dead weed it appears that spring is here and yet and yet and yet the seeds earth…
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What Does It Mean to be Alive?
“We don’t understand this virus from the inside out. We don’t even know in what sense it is ‘alive.’ It seems not to have any means or purpose other than simply to continue.…
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All the Subtlety We Cannot See (on a Zoom Call)
“The most interesting thing I have learned about myself during the global pandemic is that perhaps I overvalued that silence. I miss people. I miss the human interaction that the office brought every…
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Point/Counterpoint
“And you know, because you’ve been here before, in this killing field, that the fools and predators will find they, too, can be mowed down, that all their swagger and gorging was for…
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There is Always an Answer
“We have few opportunities to positively influence the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mass Extinction Event, and abrupt, irreversible climate change. None of these opportunities, even if pursued with rigorous passion by each of us,…
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The Poet Tom Sturch
“I’m preaching to myself, he would say, as if the belief that the grace of a common bread was easier for us to comprehend than the oracle of his mouth; that his humanity…
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Welcome to The Masquerade
“Since the isolation protocols began, I’ve baked bread loaves; I’ve done a cheesecake for a friend; I’ve made Dutch Babies when I was feeling nostalgic for my Grandmother Balk’s breakfasts; and I have…
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Fridman Fixing Photos
“Greta Jaruševičiūtė, of Bored Panda, calls James Fridman a ‘magic wish-granting funny photoshop genie’ who’ll ‘give you EXACTLY what you ask for but in a twisted kind of way, deliberately delivering you the…
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Not Quite Beyond The Pale
“If you attend to Mark Addison Kershaw on Facebook, you will encounter a person of very little language, spoken or written, accompanied by a dog, enamored of a cat; someone who, even before…