rooney mara smoking a cigarette during the filming of mary magdalene (2018)

A 5-4 tiling of anti-deSitter space with Calabi-Yau manifolds rotating in CP-4

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

—Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva

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True Detective, Season One; from ‘The Secret Fate of All Life’

Görkem Şen is a Turkish musician who wanted to create the sounds of electronic music acoustically. His invention, the yaybahar, is a string instrument connected to drums via metal coils that creates a wide variety of otherworldly music.

— J. R. R. TOLKIEN, from “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.”

Edgar Allan Poe, from The Complete Tales & Poems; “The Man That Was Used Up,”

— Without any belief one cannot say “we.” A nihilist, by definition, does not belong any community. A community (“we”) is based, first of all, on a belief —a belief of togetherness and solidarity. That’s why, for those who can say “we” there is always hope.