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04-30-2019, 11:04 PM | #31 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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you're coming down the mountain in slow and gentle motion
with nameless constellations of white stars on your back. the moon is falling, the moon is falling the moon has fallen, and we sent you back. we left you in the house of still air with mugwort, yarrow, and dry grass your spirit passing through my hands said, "remember everything." i remember everything: black trees circling, black earth opening. |
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04-30-2019, 11:18 PM | #32 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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04-30-2019, 11:18 PM | #33 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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let our eyes adjust to the dark
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04-30-2019, 11:27 PM | #34 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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04-30-2019, 11:29 PM | #35 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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04-30-2019, 11:31 PM | #36 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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it's all downhill from here.
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04-30-2019, 11:31 PM | #37 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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04-30-2019, 11:32 PM | #38 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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"broad is the road that leads to death, and thousands walk together there."
and now the field is open, the field is open, the field is opening. the field is open, the field is open, i see it opening. |
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04-30-2019, 11:56 PM | #40 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-01-2019, 12:07 AM | #41 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: N3t4Euh Haus
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Tyler I am listening to this rn and I feel like you might dig it
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05-01-2019, 12:59 AM | #42 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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There are people the sea doesn’t suit, they prefer the mountains or the plain. Personally, I feel no worse there than anywhere else. Much of my life has ebbed away before this shivering expanse, to the sound of waves in storm and calm, and the claws of the surf. Before, no, more than before, one with, spread on the sand, or in a cave. In the sand I was in my element, letting it trickle between my fingers, scooping holes that a moment later filled in or that filled themselves in, casting it in the air by handfuls, rolling in it. And in the cave, lit by the beacons at night, I knew what to do to be no worse than anywhere else. And that my land went no further, in one direction at least, did not displease me. And to feel there was one direction at least in which I could go no further, without first wetting myself, then drowning myself, was a blessing. For I have always said, First learn to walk, then you can take swimming lessons. But don’t imagine my region ended at the coast, that would be a grave mistake. For it was this sea too, its reefs and distant islands, and its hidden depths. And I too once went forth on it, in a sort of oarless skiff, but I paddled with an old bit of driftwood. And I sometimes wonder if I ever came back, from that voyage. For I see myself putting to sea, and the long hours without landfall, I do not see the return, the tossing on the breakers, and I do not hear the frail keel grating on the shore. I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of sucking stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally among my four pockets and sucked them turn and turn about. This raised a problem which I first solved in the following way. I had say sixteen stones, four in each of my four pockets, these being the two pockets of my trousers and the two pockets of my greatcoat. Taking a stone from the right pocket of my greatcoat, and putting it in my mouth, I replaced it in the right pocket of my greatcoat by a stone from the right pocket of my trousers, which I replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my trousers, which I replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my greatcoat, which I replaced by the stone, which was in my mouth, as soon as I had finished sucking it. In this way there were always four stones in each of my four pockets, but not quite the same stones. And when the desire to suck took hold of me again, I drew again on the right pocket of my greatcoat, certain of not taking the same stone as the last time. And while I sucked it I rearranged the other stones in the way I have just described. And so on. But this solution did not satisfy me fully. For it did not escape me that, by an extraordinary hazard, the four stones circulating thus might always be the same four. In which case, far from sucking the sixteen stones turn and turn about, I was really only sucking four, always the same, turn and turn about. But I shook them well in my pockets, before I began to suck, and again, while I sucked, before transferring them, in the hope of obtaining a more general circulation of the stones from pocket to pocket. But this was only a makeshift that could not content a man like me. So I began to look for something else. And the first thing I hit upon was that I might do better to transfer the stones four by four, instead of one by one, that is to say, during the sucking, to take the three stones remaining in the right pocket of my greatcoat and replace them by the four in the right pocket of my trousers, and these by the four in the left pocket of my trousers, and these by the four in the left pocket of my greatcoat, and finally these by the three from the right pocket of my greatcoat, plus the one, as soon as I had finished sucking it, which was in my mouth. Yes, it seemed to me at first that by so doing I would arrive at a better result. But on further reflection I had to change my mind, and confess that the circulation of the stones four by four came to exactly the same thing as their circulation one by one. For if I was certain of finding each time, in the right pocket of my greatcoat, four stones totally different from their immediate predecessors, the possibility nevertheless remained of my always chancing on the same stone, within each group of four, and consequently of my sucking, not the sixteen turn and turn about as I wished, but in fact four only, always the same, turn and turn about. So I had to seek elsewhere than in the mode of circulation. For no matter how I caused the stones to circulate, I always ran the same risk. It was obvious that by increasing the number of my pockets I was bound to increase my chances of enjoying my stones in the way I planned, that is to say one after the other until their number was exhausted. Had I had eight pockets, for example, instead of the four I did have, then even the most diabolical hazard could not have prevented me from sucking at least eight of my sixteen stones, turn and turn about. The fact of the matter is I should have needed sixteen pockets for all my anxiety to be dispelled. And for a long time I could see no other conclusion but this, that short of having sixteen pockets, each with its stone, I could never reach the goal I had set myself, short of an extraordinary hazard. And if at a pinch I could double the number of my pockets, were it only by dividing each pocket in two, with the help of a few safety-pins let us say, to quadruple them seemed to be more than I could manage. And I didn’t feel inclined to take all that trouble for a half-measure. For I was beginning to lose all sense of measure, after all this wrestling and wrangling, and to say, It’s either all or nothing. And if I was tempted for an instant to establish a more equitable proportion between my stones and my pockets, by reducing the former to the number of the latter, it was only for an instant. For it would have been an admission of defeat. And sitting on the shore, before the sea, the sixteen stones spread out before my eyes, I gazed at them in anger and perplexity. For just as I had difficulty in sitting on a chair, or in an armchair, because of my stiff leg you understand, so I had none in sitting on the ground, because of my stiff leg and my stiffening leg, for it was about this time that my good leg, good in the sense that it was not stiff, began to stiffen. I needed a prop under the ham you understand, and even under the whole length of the leg, the prop of the earth. And while I gazed thus at my stones, brooding on endless martingales all equally defective, and crushing handfuls of sand, so that the sand ran through my fingers, and fell back on the strand, yes, while I held thus in suspense my mind and a part of my body, one day suddenly it dawned on the former, dimly, that I might perhaps achieve my purpose without increasing the number of my pockets, or reducing the number of stones, but simply by sacrificing the principle of trim. The meaning of this illumination, which suddenly began to sing within me, like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah, I did not penetrate at once, and notably the word trim, which I had never met with, long remained obscure. Finally I seemed to grasp that this word trim could not mean anything else, anything better, than the distribution of the sixteen stones in four groups of four, one group in each pocket, and that it was my refusal to consider any distribution other than this that had vitiated my calculations until then and rendered the problem literally insoluble. And it was on the basis of this interpretation, whether right or wrong, that I finally reached a solution, inelegant assuredly, but sound, sound.
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05-01-2019, 03:04 AM | #43 |
Braindead
Location: PROWLING THE BADLANDS
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how you doing, tyler?
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05-01-2019, 02:05 PM | #44 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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I've just had my pupils dialated. The intensity of the light hurts my eyes but the colors are wonderful. I saw a basket of strawberries at the grocery store which has left me in a state of ecstasy. I wish I could always see things this way
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05-02-2019, 10:43 PM | #45 |
Braindead
Location: PROWLING THE BADLANDS
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god damn that sounds awesome tbh
strawberries have the most beautiful symmetry and shapes somehow |
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05-03-2019, 01:36 AM | #46 |
Minion of Satan
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Did you cop a sweet splash of that phenylephrine hydrochloride stuff?
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05-04-2019, 12:14 AM | #47 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: all over the Internet
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT A THING
CAUSE EVERY LITTLE THING IS GONNA BE ALL RIGHT |
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05-04-2019, 04:52 AM | #48 |
Apocalyptic Poster
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Weird thread...
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05-13-2019, 02:06 AM | #49 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-13-2019, 02:08 AM | #50 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-13-2019, 02:09 AM | #51 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-13-2019, 02:10 AM | #52 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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FUCK YOU AND YOUR BIG GOODBYES
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05-13-2019, 02:10 AM | #53 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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05-13-2019, 02:11 AM | #54 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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I ALONE GOT UP AND LEFT
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05-13-2019, 02:14 AM | #55 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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I JUST SEEN THE SADDEST FUCKING THING I EVER SAW
THIS BIG DOE JUST GOT RUN OVER AND HER BABY IS JUST LYING THERE RIGHT NEXT TO HER JUST SITTING LICKING HER LOOKING AROUND FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY |
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05-13-2019, 02:15 AM | #56 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-13-2019, 02:21 AM | #57 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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OK I'M SORRY
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05-13-2019, 02:23 AM | #58 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
Posts: 6,254
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I STILL HAVE TO SAY
THAT IT'S NOT THAT BAD THE TREES AND THE SKY ARE STILL SOMETHING AND THE SQUIRRELS AWE IT'S BETTER STILL I SAY THAN NOT THERE AT ALL BUT I KNOW WHAT YOU SAY |
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05-13-2019, 02:24 AM | #59 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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05-13-2019, 02:25 AM | #60 |
Minion of Satan
Location: i am volatile, a free spirit, a rogue agent
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IN THE DEAD GRAY ASHES
THERE WAS GRACE |
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