Graffiti magically appeared on the walls of the federal detention center: "FUCK ICE" and "DEATH TO ICE" and "FUCK DONALD TRUMP" but also farewell messages like "LOVE YOU DADDY."
Nietzsche: In fact, we philosophers and ‘free spirits’ feel ourselves irradiated as by a new dawn by the report that the ‘old God is dead’; our hearts overflow with gratitude, astonishment, presentiment and expectation.
One just isn’t oneself without the mind, so I realized I had better go find it. But where? Somehow, I sensed through some profound connection that my brain had wandered far, far away on a grand adventure through obscure corners of the universe.
It's one-part surrealism, one-part sci-fi social commentary, one-part philosophical/theological waxing and one-part dark and comedic literary fiction. And Goffman is our long-white-bearded, half-mad wizard-alchemist who mixes it all together and gives us the final product, the potion, in words and sentences expertly.
While Cole went through neighborhoods and places as an observer taking notes, and Vassilakis is reporting out from a new world he’s now in, Schumacher is making up worlds and characters as he goes along.
hunger or exhaustion? thirst or panic? amnesia sparked my creativity, gestures from a foreign language, my ribs keep wanting to flip open unaware my feathers are long gone, my bones a mix of libraries and waste sites
Enraged, I put the book away, likely throwing it dramatically, though I do not recall. It is March of 2025, and I think I’m finally ready to pick it up again.
In Alapawan prison, most of his cellmates were “separatists” advocating for the independence of Taiwan. They were able to leave their cells to do odd jobs, like cleaning restrooms, laundering clothes sent to the prison, or growing vegetables on the empty field next to the prison.
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