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Beneath the Blue Silence. Leiko Tar

rain and sun

My favorite firework video on the internet is this one, where 45 minutes worth of fireworks are accidentally detonated all at once on July 4th 2012 in San Diego. The sound is magnificent. It's the end of days. Infinitely better than the show they planned.

and ivan is scared that he blew his one chance to get accepted by the community but then sam jumps off his lawnmower and pats ivan on the back and says “you did good, brother. i’m sorry i misjudged you. looks like hillbillies are the same no matter what country we come from. you’re just like us, ivan. guess our redneck town has room for a little extra red” and everybody laughs and the credits roll while the ussr national anthem gets played on a banjo and washboard

good ol'southern boy quarterback throws a hail yes geologist quarterback throws a hail stone but I digress...

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/night-fisherman-under-giant-tree-canopy-silhouette-wall-art-ramy-hefny.html

I love the overall ambiguity of Calvin and Hobbes. A lot of the time, when you flash to another character's perspective, it's clear that Calvin just has a very active imagination, but sometimes even the other characters are perplexed. How did Calvin's dreaded bicycle end up in his closet? Did he really drag it all the way up the stairs to scare himself? Sometimes Calvin does things with Hobbes that hardly seem physically possible for him to do by himself. The lines between real and imaginary can be blurred and I think that's one of the really fun things about the comic.

"The so-called "gimmick" of my strip — the two versions of Hobbes — is sometimes misunderstood. I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin's around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin's imagination. Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I show two versions of reality, and each makes complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that's how life works. None of us sees the world exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life."

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk, Those who saw the buffaloes are gone. And the buffaloes are gone.

He was a sociopath of the highest order.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

— Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

William S. Burroughs, Source Unlisted.

T. S. Eliot, from his book titled"The Wasteland," originally published in December 1922