Staying Silly

*describing some learned fellow i'm acquainted with* he's very articulate *remembers when he crossed me* i mean verbose

Accidentally went wraith form in public and frighteneda load of people Im so fucking sorry

Glenn Brown (British, 1966)

my blanket warms me. what is its motive? consider that my blanket warms me with my own warmth, that i warm it, too, that without me my blanket would be cold as all surrounds. my blanket warms me because it wants to be warm. that is my motive, too, for warming it. there's a mutuality here. i'm like a blanket to my blanket and my blanket's just like a blanket to me.

When people say things like "Behold the Accursed One!" that doesn't imply any ill intent on their part -- quite often it's meant as a neutral or even helpful statement. But the problem with this sort of language is that, however well-intentioned it may be, it foregrounds the curse at the expense of the person behind it; auguries have shown that this can have a priming effect that subtly reduces empathy. For that reason, experts today encourage people to use one-first language, such as "Behold the One who Bears the Curse," to better emphasize the dignity of the individual.