@RailaiteR Story is very good, but the visuals are something else. It looks like an oil painting come to life. I'm really curious how they pulled it off.
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It's freedom. We want freedom from regulation and bureaucracy and a thousand other things -- but also freedom from our own weakness.
Powerlessness is as much a jail-keeper as the SEC.
Meanwhile, monkeys just eat bananas and fling shit at their enemies, what a life.
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1/ On Monkeys.
Why do the #NFT and #crypto communities like monkeys so much? Even the AMC Apes.
...when I was a kid, I fucking hated monkeys.
After all,
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They remind us of our basest urges. To go bananas, to go apeshit. To descend into degeneracy and atavism: basically, #crypto.
Monkey see & monkey do:
Monkey sees himself in you;
You go ape on #NFTs,
Monkey flings down shit from trees!
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But soon I grew far more interested in novel-writing than in poetry, especially after a minor obsession with Joyce and Kafka.
It was several years again before I returned to it. Maybe another story for another time.
1/ #Poetry.
When I was thirteen or so, a friend introduced me for the first time to iambic pentameter. (We were pretty nerdy.)
It took me a long time just to understand the concept of meter! (Before that, I was just counting syllables...)
So why was I drawn to it?
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...I kept a copy of the Waste Land and the Four Quartets on my bedstand and practically memorized them, I was reading them so much. (My parents looked at the poems and said: "what a bunch of crazy writing...")
It launched me into a full-blown modernist phase.
He glares at you, his sword still sheathed
But in his eyes you see the gleam
Of daggers, cruel and fierce. Beneath
His gaze, how small and weak you seem!