Provisional Logistics 2

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I wonder how much more irritation they will be able to bear next time.

At this point I'm not sure what made them mad or what made them decide that my thread was inappropriate, so I'm going to sit on it for a while. It could be a simple human error on their part, after all.

Unfortunately, Celeste's commentator in the Japanese Restream of SGDQ 2021 was not the one I like. It's not that I hate anyone but him, but I can't help but feel that he has some special qualities or something.

Basically, I like my AirPods 2. I understand that they are not the best cost effective earbuds on the market today, but for me having several Apple devices and ears that fit EarPods it seemed like a good choice.

Actually my cock is just relaxing right now.

And, yes, I've just had a bowel movement. Now that I think about it, it seems that despite containing a lot of cruelty, Attack on Titan didn't have many obscenities, including scatology.

One of ZUN’s Melody and Countermelody Relationships
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Zun seems to like using melody 1 as the counter melody for melody 2 or vice versa. Here are three examples.
Sakura, Sakura ~ Japanize Dream Melody 1
Sakura, Sakura ~ Japanize Dream Melody 1 + Melody 2
Crazy Backup Dancer Melody 2
Some may regard this as a verse instead of a melody but I will just label it as melody for convenience sake.
Crazy Backup Dancer Melody 2 (Different key) + Melody 3
Thunderclouds of Magical Power Melody 1
Thunderclouds of Magical Power Melody 3 (Different key from Melody 1)
Thunderclouds of Magical Power Melody 1 (Lowest pitch) + Melody 2 (Middle pitch) + Melody 3 (Highest pitch)
Thunderclouds of Magical Power Melody 3 + Melody 4

So how did ZUN manage to harmonise the 2 melodies together without having them sound ‘dissonant’ or ’clashing’?
I have 4 theories.
1) Melodies at different pitches
2) Controlling dynamics
3) Syncopation
4) Same chord progression

1) Melodies at different pitches
I raised Melody 1 of DDC extra stage theme by 1 octave on every repeat. The one with closer pitch to the other 2 melodies (raised 2 octaves) sounds more dissonant, doesn’t it?

2) Controlling dynamics
I increased the dynamics of Melody 4 of DDC extra stage theme on the next repeat. The one where Melody 4’s dynamic is increased sounds not as dissonant, doesn’t it? By the way, it’s the major second which I feel is causing the dissonance (F# and G#)

3) Syncopation
What is Syncopation? Go google it yourself lol. Anyway, the noteheads marked X are notes of the main melody that do not fall in together with the counter melody. More than 50% of the main melody notes do not fall with the counter melody notes, creating lesser chances for dissonances. HM Magus Night is not arranged by ZUN, I just want to give an example to prove my point.

4) Same chord progression
If both melody and counter melody shares the same chord progression, then the chances of them harmonising together increase. Melody 1 and 2 share almost the same chord progression except for only 1 bar. When composing a song, the melody notes are usually derived from the base chords. Hence, with the same chord progression, chances of 2 melodies harmonising together increase. Credits to Kijiriki and Artist のくの as I used their Sakura, Sakura sheet. Some useful information…

The Types of Intervals

Perfect Consonances
Perfect Unison (P1, PP)
Perfect Fourth (P4)
Perfect Fifth (P5)
Perfect Octave (P8)

Imperfect Consonances
Minor Third (m3)
Major Third (M3)
Minor Sixth (m6)
Major Sixth (M6)

Diatonic Dissonances
Minor Second (m2)
Major Second (M2)
Minor Seventh (m7)
Major Seventh (M7)
Tritone (A4, +4, d5, °5, T, TT)

Chromatic Dissonances
Augmented Second (A2, +2)
Any Other Augmented or Diminished Interval

A list of songs I can think of that used that compositional technique.

Border of Life (Final)
Chinese Tea
HM Magus Night
Crazy Backup Dancer
Thunderclouds of Magical Power
Sakura, Sakura ~ Japanize Dream
Future Universe of Wheelchair
Swim in a Cherry Blossom-Coloured Sea
Into the Backdoor
The Yorimashi Sits Between Dream and Reality ~ Necro-Fantasia
Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome-Kagome
Voyage 1970 is literally the counter melody of Voyage 1969

Also, kudos to these 2 Japanese pianists as they manage to play both melody and counter melody with only their right hand which is bloody hard to do so.
Jam (ジャム) and Jumpny2010
Jam (ジャム) …
Jumpny2010 …

Wow, that's only 3,4% less! This is a benefit from the M1, isn't it?

I don't have a lot to say about MIMK-078, but one thing I can say is that for the first time in a long time, a real person has been the deciding factor in putting an end to my fapping, even if she is partially hiding her face. I would like to pay tribute to the original author, Etuzan Jakusui, the lead actress, Yuria Yoshine, and the production staff.

Yeah, it's damn hot.

I want to wipe out from this world the idea that roles shape the personality of each individual.

The first headphones I bought were M40X, which were essentially chosen as a compromise to the M50X. The choice was 100% determined by information on the internet, and it would be no exaggeration to say that I despised the importance of my own senses. I needed it mainly for listening to the original music of the Touhou Project. That requirement led me via Google to Yahoo! Chiebukuro (it's like Japanese ver. Reddit), where I first heard of the M50X. At the time it cost about $200, and the existence of the M40X at half that price immediately attracted me. Being a very lazy and stingy person, I didn't bother to look into other alternatives and it became my first choice, which resulted in my purchase. I like my M40X, but now that the price of the M50X has dropped to around $150, if I had to choose now, I would buy it.

Approximately 27% less expensive! Quite fascinating option :)

I feel that the relationship between the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini is similar to that of the iPad 8 and iPad mini 5 in some ways. It is the regular model of each that is more cost effective, but each mini has the advantage of portability. Well, to be honest, I would recommend the regular model to most people, but for people like me with small hands and waning muscle strength, or for those who simply re-emphasize portability, the mini is a good option. I'm sure you're tired of hearing about this lol

What could be more painful than not being able to ask for help when someone is right in front of you?

I tend to pick at my ears even when there is no wax buildup. I tend to do this after showering, so I assume the purpose is drainage, but in any case, the fact is that I am contributing to the itchiness of my ear canal more than anything else. I want to stop, but it's become a habit.

It feels good to sniff vigorously, like a doppleganger.

>>18 Sorry guys, a doppelgänger is correct.

Yeah, sorry for the joke. It's actually not a doppelganger, but an onomatopoeia of ejaculation often found in Japanese Hentai manga. Like “Dopyu-ruru-ruru!” It expresses the sound of a highly viscous liquid passing through a narrow space.

Do aliens use mathematics to try to understand the universe? Maybe.

An immature idea that might be fresh: the succubus makes her imperfect alter ego to make her prey impatient and more engrossed.

Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

Somehow I like the sound of the word "intellectual problem".

Definitely I don't dislike it rather than I hate it.

So, every year, like clockwork, a new iPhone comes out. That’s a little better, a little faster, a little stronger than the last one. And as we know, Apple is the master of messaging. So they give an incredible onstage presentation with unreal video production. They paint the simplest, prettiest picture of how this is the greatest iPhone they’ve ever made. “The most powerful, fastest iPhone we’ve ever made.” But they also do something else very important, standard practice, but they give the phone to reviewers. And they don’t have to do this but they do and everyone involved will have essentially some date that they are first allowed to talk about their experience with this new phone. Now I’ve been a reviewer for years. We’re professionals. Our job is to take that week and do all of our testing and take all of our findings and find all the things we like and all the things we don’t like and all the new features and test all of the new claims and distill them all down into one piece. And that is a review. And if you time it all right, you can publish that review, right when the contract we signed say we’re allowed to. You might have heard of this? It’s called an embargo. So that’s what you’re seeing when you see all this first wave of reviews and impression videos about a product drop at the same time. The thing is every single one of these reviews is fundamentally a balancing act. Because there’s limited time. There is no possible way to meaningfully test every single new thing about every incredible new phone that comes out. And even if you do, how much time does that leave for writing down all these tests and then analyzing the results of these tests and that doesn’t even leave time for the production of shooting the video, editing the video, the color correction, the music, all the creative choices you want to make. There’s just too much. Being a video reviewer on YouTube today is like nine different jobs in one. So how do you decide what gets included in that review and how much has to hit the cutting room floor? So every review has its own style. Some reviews you’ll see are 5 minutes long. Super dense. Some might be 10 minutes long, even my own videos reviews over the years have gotten somewhere in the 15 to 20 minute range but that’s in an effort to give you as much information as possible in as short as time as possible. I’m not trying to waste anybody’s time. And don’t forget on YouTube we also have audience metrics and retention to think about. It’s a balancing act. So a review is basically the art of compressing and distilling as much useful information as possible into one piece. But because it’s an art, everyone’s going to cut different things from different places and make different pieces. But not this video. In this video, there is no time limit. This is everything you could possibly want to know about my last five months with the iPhone 12 Pro and what I really think.

All right. So now that the limits are off, I’m definitely going to be getting into the weeds a pretty good amount and multiple pieces of this video. You know, when it’s happening but I still it’ll be pretty fun when we do it. Now if you’re the mad man or mad woman who’s just going to watch this whole video straight through to the end, well you can see how long this video is, it’s good one, buckle up grab a snack, but if your attention span isn’t quite that long, well you can see there are chapters below for all these different topics, so if you want to get into the weeds on a certain topic you’re curious about, you can do that too, feel free to click around. Also, this video is mainly based on the iPhone 12 Pro that I’ve spent most of my last five months with, but anytime I reference other pieces of the iPhone lineup the 12 mini or the 12 or the 12 Pro Max, I’ll mention that too. Let’s get into it.

So the iPhone 12 series has a refreshed design this year which is always a big deal in the phone world and the iPhone design just doesn’t change as much as it used to and I think that’s pretty important. Design is really what most people look forward to and what seems to identify the iPhone forever. I mean, think about it, most of the time when you see new iPhone leaks or headlines or rumors, it’s mostly design stuff, right? You’re looking at new case designs or new dimensions or what is the camera bump on the back of this year’s rectangle going to look like. Mostly because we already know the next year’s iPhone is going to be pretty similar to this year’s iPhone. But we just want to know what it’s going to look like. The look and feel in the hand is is always the last most exciting unknown. I happen to love the new modern super flat design of the iPhone 12 series. It’s still a rectangle with rounded corners in a few different colors. But sides are flat. Straight up, 90 degrees, stand up on the edges flat. So the flatness has become this identifying characteristic of the phone just like it was for the iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and 5s. But it’s actually even flatter than most other flat phones because instead of 2.5D glass that’s flat for most of the surface and then curves over at the very edges. This is just straight flat glass on the front and the back and the flat stainless steel band around the edges. So this has a couple of effects. First, it gave Apple slightly more internal volume in the same shape. Second, it made the edges a bit shaper. So I happen to like the flatter edges just because I feel like it gives me something to hold when I’m picking up the phone, gripping it. Some people though dislike it for the same reason because it can feel a little sharp, like it’s sort of bumping into the corners of your hand. I haven’t felt that with this phone. The thing I like and dislike the most about this design though is the finishes. So all the iPhone 12 Pros have this sort of matte finish on the back which is nice. It’s actually satin that doesn’t show many fingerprints in any light which is awesome. It doesn’t change much as it wears over time but then you’ve got a glassy finish on the Apple logo, the camera bump and the stainless steel band around the outside. So the logo, that’s fine, I get it, but we know they could have made the camera bump matte because that’s what they did on the regular iPhone 12. Yet they went with a glossy finish just on this piece and then combined with the raised sharp camera rings. This has the tendency to collect a lot of dust. Every iPhone 12 Pro you see that’s outside of a case for more than a few minutes or put into a pocket is going to have dust around the camera modules. This doesn’t actually change the performance of the camera so it’s actually not a big deal but the dust is pretty much always going to be there because of the rings. The most annoying part of the finish on these phones for me though is the fingerprints on the stainless steel rails. They are constant. So much so that it’s not even worth cleaning in the moment when you notice there’s fingerprints on it. Like they’ve nailed everything else about this rail, the power button is slightly bigger and still very clicky, love that, the mute switch is a staple that still works exactly as you’d expect it to. I’ll talk about more about the rest of the button behavior later but basically my ideal iPhone 12 would actually be, a hybrid between the matte back of the Pro and the matte camera bump and aluminum rails of the regular 12. But guess what, most people put their phone in case and so none of that stuff about the finishes, about the grippiness, about the corners will really actually matter to you that much if you cover up all of this engineering in a plastic shell of your choice. The size of the iPhone has always been pretty reasonable although it’s slowly crept up in size over the years.

And this is my favorite size iPhone ever because it feels just about as big as it can get before I start to have to do hand gymnastics to reach the notification shade and the stuff in the top corner of the screen. For whatever reason, Apple just refuses to adjust the software on the gigantic iPhone 12 Pro Max to really take advantage of that bigger screen in a meaningful way. So I found the trade-off in cameras and battery for how annoying it is. To use, just isn’t worth it. So the iPhone 12 Pro is a great size, the iPhone 12 is an identical size, and the 12 mini if you can deal with the battery shortcomings is the best compact flagship phone out there right now. I’ll link my entire video about that below. A couple other things about the design though. This is a thousand dollar phone. Let’s not forget that. It’s a thousand dollars. And so there’s a lot of these premium design, industrial design features. And this would be the perfect video to shout out a lot of those things that we typically skip and take for granted. So the whole body is sealed and IP68 certified, I’m not the type to put it under water and test that, but it is able to withstand dust and dirt and is resistant to liquid submersion up to a max depth of six meters underwater for up to 30 minutes. So it’s always nice to see premium phones that would survive a quick drop in the pool or a toilet or something like that. And actually I also used to do a lot more tests if you go back far enough in videos where I would literally try to bend the phone and see if you could hear any flexing or creaking or anything like that. Phones these days just don’t do anymore and this is no exception. So overall, just in terms of raw industrial design, the iPhone is exactly what we’d expected. It’s great. It works great, it looks great, and it still has the widest most vibrant ecosystem of accessories. The worst part about it is technically that Lightning Port in a world of USB Type-C, but to most iPhone users that’s just a default and we already know Apple’s trying to get rid of that. Anyway, I’ll link a video below the like button or right up here in the corner to an entire video I made just about that topic. The best part though, I still think it’s actually the most underrated, the haptics. So I’m putting this in the design section because this is a consideration from the very beginning when Apple’s laying out the internals of the iPhone. There is a massive space set aside inside for a very large Taptic Engine as Apple calls it. And it’s REALLY good. So instead of previously typical rotational vibration motor, that Taptic Engine is a linear oscillating vibrator. And it can deliver incredibly precise convincing vibrations that literally feels like taps. Almost like you’re pressing a real button or your phone is tapping you in your pocket. And it’s better than any other phone’s haptics I’ve felt right now. This one in the iPhone 12 Pro isn’t necessarily better than last year but it’s just one of those things that we skip because we take it for granted. But it’s really good. Apple’s gotten so good at haptics that they’re comfortable replacing typical buttons like a track pad on a MacBook with just a flat piece of glass and a Taptic Engine underneath. It’s just, it’s that good. Also, do I think that this triple camera array looks kind of like a stovetop? Yes. Do I think Apple knew that when they were making this phone? Yes. But do I think they just went ahead with it anyway because the memes are inevitable and it’s kind of also extra press? Yes. So go ahead. Put a case on it.

If the iPhone 13 mini is released, and it has a matte black flat design with Touch ID, I guess it must look pretty attractive to me, to the extent that I'd consider it worth 80,000 JPY. It'll be a good deal.

Son of a bitcoin! I can't stop hiccupping!

I like Reach for the Summit.

Buenos días.

One of the strangest things about erections is that there is no choice. It progresses before any behavioural assessment has taken place.

I don't know why erection is in the plural, but it was probably done with noble intentions. No need to worry as I had already subsided without realizing it.

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I'm not going to save it in SP because it's not sophisticated enough to be called a Proverb, but I'll let PL spit it out, even though what's in SP is hardly a Proverb in the grand scheme of things. I mean, caring for a living thing is like not wanting to break your smartphone.

Is the hypothesis that something that foreshadows death is attractive a little too short-sighted?

Emil Cioran was a writer and philosopher born in 1911 in what is present day Rasinari, Romania. He is renowned for his penetratingly dark, nihilistic, yet beautiful writing style, considered by many to be one of the great writers of despair, building his philosophical arguments off the somber, emotional rhythm of his prose, often expressing shocking thoughts and dark humor, nearly every sentence and passage hung down from the very heights of despair. Born into a socially and spiritually volatile time of western history, somewhere in the middle of the increasing disintegration of traditional religious ideology and the newly emerging philosophical movements of existentialism, idealism, and other pessimistic schools of thought, Cioran would find himself positioned on the face of a mountain that humanity was desperately trying to get over. And from his view, he saw nothing. A deathly climb to another valley of nowhere. At a fairly young age, Cioran would become a heavy reader, going on to study literature and philosophy at the University of Bucharest, a public university in Romania. Here he would study and read the works of philosophers like Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Hegel, and many others. At twenty-three, he would publish his first book titled On the Heights of Despair, which would soon go on to receive controversial, but mostly positive critical acclaim, achieving him two notable awards, and setting him on the path to soon become an internationally recognized writer and thinker. In this first work, not only did Cioran reveal his promising, young intellectual mind, but also what would go on to become the reoccurring, lifelong themes and obsessions of his work; themes like despair, suffering, social isolation, absurdity, futility, failure, decay, and death. Written out of a spell of horrible insomnia, this first book would provide a foretelling of what awaited Cioran: a lifelong exploration of the underbelly of the human condition fueled by a depression infused insomniac lifestyle. “I’ve never been able to write otherwise than in the midst of the depression brought about by my nights of insomnia.” Cioran writes. “For seven years I could barely sleep. I need this depression, and even today before I sit down to write I play a disk of Gypsy music from Hungary.” Like many great writers and artists, Cioran felt as though he had to write. It was not as if he made his work sad, but that his sadness made his work. In the moments of depression, writing was, according to him, his only therapy. His first book, and the twenty plus others of his to come, according to Cioran, saved him from what might have otherwise seemed like the logical conclusion to much of his work. If nothing else, this aspect of his work and life reveals a profound insight into the potency of the creative process. That even in writing about the futility and meaninglessness of life and its endeavors, the power of the creative process can, in some sense, save the writer from the very substance and content of their own work, paradoxically making the futility and meaninglessness that they discuss somewhat less futile and meaningless. After leaving Romania in 1940, Cioran would end up living the majority of his life in Paris. He would go on to produce upwards of twenty books, written in both Romanian and French, keeping the same eloquence, wit, and intensity throughout. His work would increasingly develop and maintain him a highly respected reputation amongst the  prominent French intellectual scene, garnering the admiration of high-ranking philosophical peers as well as a large following of readers across the world.

Despite this, he would live a very modest, private life, going to great lengths to avoid any and all accolades and any way of life that would otherwise be considered ordinarily successful. In 1995, at the age of eighty-four, Cioran died after having developed Alzheimer’s several years prior. Slowly but surely, one of the most eloquent minds of the 20th century lost all relationship with words and then experienced the main theme of his life’s work firsthand. In terms of Cioran’s philosophy, despite his work being unmistakably perceptive and intelligent, he is somewhat interesting and perhaps debatable  in the context of a philosopher. For the most part, traditional philosophical work is almost always grounded in a particular system of thought, which is formed or integrated first as a foundation and then logically built on from there. Cioran’s work, however, does not really start from nor integrate any real system of this form. Rather, it relies more on his aphoristic, observational writing style, which seems to almost philosophize and reveal metaphysical ideas through the emotionally tense, subjective, and chaotic reading experience alone, without much consideration of logical structure or systematic reasoning. Seeing as how a key part of Cioran’s philosophy was that he disagreed with the premise of reason and traditional philosophy as a means of resolving life and explaining its reasonlessness, this approach arguably makes sense. To adequately argue for a philosophy of absurdity and reasonlessness, what better way is there than to write without priority for structure or reason? And in this sense, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Cioran is sort of an antiphilosophy philosopher. Which perhaps nonetheless is, ironically, still a philosophy. According to what CAN be surmised of Cioran’s views, it is more or less death specifically that both causes the futility of life and possess the inevitable limit to all reason within it. However, in his most famous work, The Trouble with Being Born, he discusses how since death necessarily follows from birth, it is actually the memory of our birth that is the tragic problem of life, and not death in it of itself. The attempt to reason an understanding or solution to the consciousness awareness of death stemming from birth is thus both the driving force of philosophy, religion, and science, and simultaneously their collapsing force. The unbeatable opponent under which all reason, logic, and human effort crumble. And consequently, any philosophical attempt to do so, for Cioran, can only be a contemplation on failure. Broadly speaking, this concept would also become a fundamental tenant of his philosophy, often underpinning his ideas on the notion that human endeavors are almost always synonymous and fated with failure. What his work also seemed to parallel alongside this dread and nihilism, though, is the notion of accepting and playing into the absurdity of it all. Loving the absurd uselessness for what it is, how it is, and using it against itself, and living anyway. In the words of Cioran, “When all the current reasons—moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on—no longer guide one's life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? Only by a connection with the absurd, by love of absolute uselessness, loving something which does not have substance but which simulates an illusion of life. I live because the mountains do not laugh and the worms do not sing.” It is in this dive into the absurdity that Cioran seems to pose the question: can those who accept and embrace failure and disaster ever really fail or be struck by either?

Pessimism, in this sense, almost serves as a trump card. The last true failure being the failure of optimism. From there, we become, as he put it, “invincible victims.” There is a certain unique and important quality to the irony of Cioran’s work. As a sort of antiphilosophy philosopher who argued that life cannot be made or reasoned into any sort of reconciliation or meaningful benefit, he nonetheless did so by philosophizing. At least in some form. Nihilism, of which he is generally associated, denies the value of all things. But can a nihilist philosophy be expressed as a philosophy and remain a nihilist philosophy? In other words, can the premise and conclusion be that life is inherently meaningless, and that endeavoring and seeking reason is entirely futile, whilst simultaneously making this meaningful claim through creative action and, albeit subversive, providing reasons for it? Discussing or creatively expressing the notion that all is meaningless and void of reason is itself a creation of meaning out of the void motivated by the very void of reason. The process of forming meaning, it seems, can perhaps not be escaped, even by one the greatest so-called nihilists. And perhaps then, at bottom, Cioran is never really declaring true nihilism. There is the more obvious reading of Cioran, and perhaps others like him, that can reasonably come off as if it was created by someone who outright hates life and lives with a constant bitterness towards everyone and everything. But there is also another read that seemingly reveals a paradoxical reverence and embrace of life. Although Cioran might not have explicitly agreed with this, to speak of life with such candor in the way he did, to think it is worthy to be spoken of at all, to refuse to lie to it or about it, despite how dark or bleak it might be, perhaps suggests a certain hidden, but nonetheless deep admiration and acceptance of it. When asked once why he writes about such dismal topics in the way he does, Cioran said, “Everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable.” His work time and time again demonstrates this, revealing the perhaps vile and horribly unresolvable qualities of life, while simultaneously reveling the potential for redemption contained inside them. A worthiness of enduring, of thinking, of writing, of living life. Cursed with the gift of consciousness, we are all inescapably forced into the beautiful confrontation of the void and the absurd inevitability of creating  meaning and somethingness out of it. Cioran’s work is likely not for everyone, but for those whom it is, it is likely with a great degree. As all art and literature arguably should, his work attempts to reflect, with as much brute earnestness as possible, the things most of us know and feel but are often too scared or unsure to not only talk about but think about. He was one of the rare explorers willing, or perhaps forced into traveling through the depths of hell and heights of despair and then tell about it. Perhaps Cioran’s work can be seen simply as a collection of life-refusing nihilistic thoughts, or perhaps it can also be seen as an embodiment of the irrational but no less potent force of human creative consciousness at work; its ability to meaningfully endure even its own horrible conditions. And in this, in his works’ arguably successful confrontation and embracing of the sad, hopeless, and absurd parts of life, it serves as an enduring and important connection point into these often hidden but deeply shared human experiences, reminding us that we aren’t so alone and reassuring us with the comforting notion that, “I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?” - Emil Cioran.

The belief that meticulous preparation will bring about our desires is neither good nor bad in itself.

Imperishable Night had 4996 words. Kinda nice.

The bipolarly decentralized female genitalia: the breast and the vulva are literally symbols of the female body and are essential to the history of the sex industry.