“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
(Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis)
I was eyeballing the fine print of a sign in the city recently to make sure I was good to park under it and a guy (who was walking on an island in the middle of Broad Street) mockingly called out "ohhh, what's the sign say?" and was squinting at it and me as I turned to him.
if we’d actually known how disinterested some of the key stakeholders really were in winning this election we may as well have spun the wheel on a third party or two. do not ever, ever let the democratic party tell you it’s your fault ever again. it's not