THROES

Billy Westbay, Jim Bridwell and John Long in 1975 after scaling the summit in the background.

“Maybe it wasn’t a heart but an old, sprung trap. There’s no way to pry it back open. The iron teeth, rusted with old blood, locked in a dead smile, harmless forever.”

—   Michael Clune, White Out p. 255

“In 1999, I went to Sarajevo and saw the ruins of the National Library. There I met a beautiful poet who said to me, “Each destroyed book is a passport to hell.”

—   From the introduction to Fernando Baez’s A Universal History of the Destruction of Books.

“There is no end to wanting. When you have senses that go through things like a chainsaw, one day you’ll look around and there will be nothing left.”

—   Michael W. Clune - White Out, p. 83
I suppose the 9/11 hijackers must have been part of a ‘Urban Renewal Team’

I suppose the 9/11 hijackers must have been part of a ‘Urban Renewal Team’

The price is steep to kill the pain

Just because you never made it as an artist doesn’t mean you can’t invade Russia. 

 Thinking about starting a social media campaign to end the Syrian Civil War.

 Ideas?

“Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are just platforms. They’re not good or bad, useful or useless; however we’ve allowed smug, greedy, well-fed white people to create a myth that says otherwise.”

—   B.J. Mendelson
Milan, September 1943
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

“Kneeling, watching the hole, he tried to concentrate on Lee Strunk and the war, all the dangers, but his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin, all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone…”

—   Tim O’Brien - The Things They Carried