#anthrocene

Chapter 9 is up!

I am alien to the noises of cities, of people, to the greed of machinery that does not sleep, the hum of power that eats up the night. Where rain, sunlight and darkness are contemned, I cannot sleep. I do not trust anything that has been fabricated to replace the climate of woods or prairies. I can have no confidence in places where the air is first fouled and then cleansed, where the water is first made deadly and then made safe with other poisons. There is nothing in the world of buildings that is not fabricated, and if a tree gets in among the apartment houses by mistake it is taught to grow chemically. It is given a precise reason for existing. They put a sign on it saying it is for health, beauty, perspective; that it is for peace, for prosperity; that it was planted by the mayor’s daughter. All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.

All the fine winds gone And this sweet world is so much older Animals pull the night around their shoulders Flowers fall to their naked knees Here I come now, here I come I hear you been out there looking for something to love The dark force that shifts at the edge of the tree It's alright, it's alright When you turn so long and lovely, it's hard to believe That we're falling now in the name of the Anthrocene

Sit down beside me and I'll name it for you.  Behold, behold, the heaven bound sea, the wind cast its shadow and moves for the tree.  Behold the animals and the birds and the sky entire, I hear you been out there looking for something to set on fire

Just realized that I'm letting embarrassment of my old writing skills prevent me from actually finishing the fic I've been working on for nearly a decade.

hii it's me again! i just love your themes! you probably got a lot of qs about this or it could be just me but some photo sets aren't show up on the bia theme