“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
- Cormac McCarthy
This line from Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men treats misfortune as a kind of hidden protection. Spoken by Ellis, a retired lawman who has known real loss, it rests on a simple idea: people see only so far.
A setback can feel like ruin, yet the sudden turn in the road may have kept you from something worse. McCarthy does not make hardship noble. He treats it as a possible shield against a fate you never saw coming—and a reminder that survival, in a hard world, often arrives in ways no one would choose.
From their first meeting in 1995 to that unforgettable night in 1998: the story of the bond between Gloria Steinem, Ed Vedder, and a band that never separated its music from what it believed in.
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Back when people would post a random photo with zero anxiety, see only your friends' posts in chronological order and influencers didn’t exist. We really lost a golden era
On the 29th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, a reminder of an emotionally charged Wembley before England’s match with Moldova ten days later.
Here the crowd listen to ‘Candle In The Wind’ and impeccably observe the minute silence.
Different times…
As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...
saudade de quando não existia o whatsapp e todo esse imediatismo que existe hoje. tanto na vida pessoal, como no trabalho. podíamos colocar a sinalização de invisibilidade no MSN, ficar em paz e sair da internet depois. saudade da liberdade de não estar presente o tempo todo.