Elly Higginbottom

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

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This excerpt from "Wittgenstein's Mistress" is what it is like to live inside my mind, in case you were wondering.

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The man wants to sleep
and wants to hit his head again and again
against a wall. Why is it all so difficult?
But the dog says, Let's go make a sandwich.
Let's make the tallest sandwich anyone's ever seen.
And that's what they do

— excerpt from ‘How to Like It’ by Stephen Dobyns

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@grodaeu What if the cars become sentient and use Twitter to organize the overthrow of the human race?

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@abe1x @felixsalmon Excuse me???

—Elly “The-Dark-Gloomyass-Winter-One”™️ Higginbottom

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@cahwit Wait did it happen? I didn’t notice

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La Pendule Noire (The Black Marble Clock), 1869-71
by Paul Cézanne

The Black Clock (After Cézanne), 1992
by Grace Hartigan

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and he said, it
‘s Daylight Saving today, and I said
,o, and he said, how come you didn’t
know it was Daylight Saving, and I sa
id, well, I don’t have a tv and I don
‘t read the newspapers and I only lis
ten to symphony music on the radio

Charles Bukowski, ‘Daylight Saving’

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Clock and Crock, 1954
by Karl Knaths

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@3747S_14458E Doesn’t look like anything to me

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New daily affirmation: "Freeze all motor function. Cognition only. Remove emotional affect."

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@RampCapitalLLC What time isn’t it?

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@Bonecondor How about some paintings of clocks

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So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum
in painted quiet and concentration
keeps pouring milk day after day
from the pitcher to the bowl
the World hasn’t earned
the world’s end.

— ‘Vermeer’ by Wisława Szymborska

(Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658)

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"Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember." Joan Didion, "Blue Nights"

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I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.
—from ‘To the Harbormaster’ by Frank O’Hara
(full poem: https://t.co/abvCNNAnrX)

art: To the Harbormaster, 1957, by Joan Mitchell

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@RampCapitalLLC I’m not either but that’s because I didn’t turn them forward six months ago (and also time is a social construct)

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@crossdefault Remember when the CIA created abstract expressionism?

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“The hosts are supposed to stay within their loops, stick to their scripts, with minor improvisations”

I relate to Westworld because I’m pretty sure I too am a semi-sentient AI living in a simulation

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Is it weird to watch “Don’t Worry Darling” and think, “actually I’d be fine with that”?