Gentle Earth // Retroluvv // Andrea Gibson, I Sing The Body Electric; Especially When My Power Is Out

gentle earth // retroluvv // andrea gibson, I sing the body electric; especially when my power is out

when jorge luis borges wrote in a copy of beowulf that he was working on translating, “beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”

“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“‘Still, we live and learn, that’s what I always say.’ [Didactylos] turned to face the soldier. ‘Kicking and screaming.’”

-Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

“‘Of course, I accept as a natural-born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster, and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.’

‘Capital! Welcome to Government Service!’”

-Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal

“God, I have read Job, and I don’t understand it, but if this is a test of faith, you now realize my faith is fairly weak, and probably leaving the spicy mustard off the pastrami sandwich would have also tested it? You didn’t have to go nuclear on me, you know...”

—Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air