Um Deus Para Nenhum Rei

there is something so timeless about the winged staff and the twin serpents.

it always feels like a symbol of ascent to me — the balancing of currents, the meeting of opposites, the movement of force upward through matter. wings above, serpents winding, the staff at the center: spirit, polarity, and the axis holding it all together.

Orson Welles: it’s the most autobiographical movie that I’ve ever made, the only one that’s really close to me.

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence”― Franz Kafka, The Castle

The old world is in flames around us.

There is no more middle ground. If you care about public health—if you care about medical research—if you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones, the price of groceries—you have to become a revolutionary.