“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”

― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

NGC 6523, Stardust Water of the Lagoon Nebula

Virna Lisi

Shipping a 5MB hard drive in the 1950’s.

The temptation to exist

You gotta promise you won’t say anything
Cause this guy don’t dance
And the word’s been passed

What shall we tell the blind woman in Rilke’s poem who lamented that ‘I can no longer live with the sky upon me’? Would it comfort her if we told her we can no longer live with the earth underneath our feet?

— Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints.