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I’ve listened to this track every year on my birthday since I turned 17.

KNOOoow sooomethin…i gotta range. i got a range like NO mothafucka KNOWS. come to think of it i’m gonna g- i’m gonna make him BALD and make him, and make him SWEAT ACID. and i think i’m gonna give ‘im weird bladder problems, and romantic problems- you know what, the WHOLE THING. i already SAID that fuckin thing, you missed it. where were you on that one, o’keefe? eyes on the prize. FOCUS! don’t just look at her ass, EAT IT. mY BADGE MY WIT- oh shit. eeuuhhhhh auuauuaghh wOSH- calm before the storm- fuck it. meOW MEOWWW. WOAH- NOPE. RAAAHHH RAGH. BOOO. what’s so funny about it, i don’t get it. y’mean, yev neva heahd of, the millennium falcon, it’s the ship that made the kessel run in, unda twelve pah-secs…AY, does ya mothuh sew? BOOM, GET ‘ER TO SEW DAT

Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon, trans. Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani (Vintage Classics, 1990)

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. October 1927 featured in “Diaries,”

–Stephenie Meyer

There’s no mercy for the weak of heart. They’ll be trampled down and torn apart. And as ruthless as it all may seem, Well, the wild cares not for the weaker beings.