Consider this a Predicate.

I think I am still in love with him, but I try not to think about it.

free love

Sex can be desublimated when we prioritize the quantity of consumption the emphasis shifts away from the quality of the experience. This is how sex becomes repressive. Rather than a precious experience, mass consumption demands that it become a matter of speed and quantity.

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free

love that is given with liberty, without boundaries, restrictions, exempt from external authority, independent, given readily

set free

vs.

without value

if something is given readily does it still have value? can value be earned without cost?

vs.

casual

inappropriately casual or presumptuous

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love

profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person

a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend

sexual passion or desire

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free love

attachment without value

profound feelings of the most value

Book List

The Door - Szabo'
Elena Ferrante
H is for Hawk
The Invention of Nature - Wulf
Near and Distant Nature - Haslam
Our Kids - Putnam
North Korea Confidential - Tudor and Pearson
Kissinger - Ferguson
The Sellout - Beatty
Book of Numbers - Cohen
The Sympathizer - Nguyen
The Fisherman - Obioma
A Little Life - Yanagihara
Chernobyl - Alexievich
Zingy Boys
The Argonauts - Nelson
Zero K - Delillo
The Last Interview - Baldwin

Stuff List

Helen Oyeyemi
"Sugar frost nuts ask"
Paul Bowles
Abrahams
Yellow-tinted shooting glasses
Fishlike Blimps
The perimeter left by your absence is long to walk in one day.

Dog Leg

Glorious Art

Oh literature. Oh the glorious art. How it preys upon the marrow.

-D. H. Lawrence

Haiku #517: Amends Were Made to Have with Yourself

You took ev'rything/And replaced it with nothing./What happens next?

A Most Accurate Description of Assholes

"The guy who takes special advantages in cooperative life out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people."


--From "Assholes, A Theory" by Aaron James

Amazon: Assholes, A Theory

Haiku #516: Jaundice

Seeds of destruction/In every conversation/Can't help but plant them