tess - Catholic - 20+ - mostly art, religious stuff, and possibly some memes - tag for the play i'm writing is #starman vibes - remember it will all be worthwhile
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New Alien, Doesnt Have A Name Yet, But Hes Here To Sing 1984 By David Bowie And Be Existential
new alien, doesn’t have a name yet, but he’s here to sing 1984 by David Bowie and be existential
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as one party of vacationers leave, another arrives…
“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off a scaffolding is really more sensational; and it is also some thousand times more common. But journalism cannot reasonably be expected thus to insist upon the permanent miracles. Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. However democratic they may be, they are only concerned with the minority.”
—GK Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross
*David Bowie’s Starman plays in the background*
