ChadStacey

I try not to say anything stupid unless I have to.

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"In places as beautiful as Monument Valley, where people should talk with God, Americans shoot westerns."
Andrei Tarkovsky

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@villagrippa This is really beautiful. Who's the artist?

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Tell him that not one more person will be born on earth and he'll put a bullet in his own head."

From the diary of Andrey Tarkovsky, September of 1970

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"Can it really be that the fate of all people is but a cycle of an infinite process, the meaning of which they do not have the powers to understand? Man, regardless of anything else — cynicism or materialism — believes in Infinity, in Deathlessness..."

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"And some time or other someone big will come along and pick all the streetlights and put them in a vase on his table. They'll quietly wilt there."

Streetlight-Dandelions, Valery Turakyevich

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

I lie on the grass like a worm.

Franz Kafka, 1909.

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Thinking about how Yasunara Kawabata dreamt that Yukio Mishima's ghost visited him in dreams more than 300 nights in a row before dying under mysterious circumstances.

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A trip to the waterpark. You don't have to take your tee-shirt off if you don't want to. Jim left his on.

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A note from the author, who bears a striking resemblance to Mr. Saturn these days.

https://t.co/gQ3PyAVdo9

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@wydna00 Is that the undeniable Michel de Montaigne in the middle?

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Lots of fat jokes about Vitellius today. He gets a lot of criticism for holding constant feasts and buying people off and all that jazz, but he died a noble death.

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Music for a rainy Sunday night

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There are enough dumb people keeping up with all the dumb stuff happening in the world. You should think about your own life, about things like your breakfast and the people you see every day and what you do after work. It's better for your character and quality of life.

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@UpdatingOnRome Vitellius died an honorable death.

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"Freedom remains a ghost on that continent of grief, and they've so accustomed to it, that they almost don't notice."
Venedict Yerofeyev

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All of the 2016 twitter accounts that identified themselves with inaccessible and convoluted political labels have been replaced by accounts with avatars like this:

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More posts about "modern man" in which posters generalize from their own limitations to characterize the inner lives of millions of strangers

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@millerman I love Dostoevsky, but Demons is all but unreadable. The first 100-200 pages are filler.

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I've stopped posting but haven't stopped writing. I'm too out-to-lunch to effectively advertize my stuff and I'm not sure digital publication suits my writing. Plus most people online talk about lame shit, and I don't want to poison my own well by getting involved in lame shit.