Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

Oslo, Norway, 1935.

I used to think if I died in an evil place, then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to heaven. But now, fuck. I don't care where it goes as long it ain't here.

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Me and her went for a ride sir
And ten innocent people died

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

‘I remember,’ Brod writes, ‘ a conversation with Kafka which began with present-day Europe and the decline of the human race. “We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God’s head,” Kafka said. This reminded me at first of the Gnostic view of life: God as the evil demiurge, the world as his Fall. “Oh no,” said Kafka, “our world is only a bad mood of God, a bad day of his.” “Then there is hope outside this manifestation of the world that we know.” He smiled. “Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope – but not for us.”

- Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (1969)

Taurids Meteors

Today in 1981

A kitten lounges in a specially made hammock aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle (1940)

Aron Ralston

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

- Francis Bacon