Essays, Articles, Literature

“If you start to look for them, you’ll start to see dotted lines all over the place.
A row of ants.
Stitches in fabric.
There are dotted lines on highways and on basketball courts. On floorplans, they reveal the presence of unseen architectural features. In contracts, they tell you where to sign. On treasure maps, they indicate where to go.”
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“The news arrives each day with the freshness of new weather. Its beginnings are mysterious like the beginnings of traffic. Couldn't we all just drive a little faster? But whereas the eternal question of gridlock is a matter of why things suddenly stop, the eternal question of the news is why things suddenly go. The sun sets and the sun rises. Overnight things have happened. The world has changed, even if only incrementally. There is new weather all about and new news as well.“
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“Clear all matter from a small area. Ask the children to aid you in this by using tweezers to pull particles from the area. This can be a great exercise for the development of fine motor skills. Make sure that a teacher is holding the boundaries of the newly created void at all times so that it doesn’t snap shut into a singularity that could possibly consume a child, or the whole school, or the entire Earth and the moon and the planets and all things past and yet to come.“
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Item description“It was always nicer to see him from far away, and so I walked away. From there he was small, so I reached out and grabbed him and placed him in my breast pocket.”
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“Yes, my friend said. History is interesting. Interesting like all unknowable things are interesting.“
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“Each morning I relive it all again. The washing of the limbs. The slaughtering of the lambs. The grinding of the spices and the lighting of the incense. Each day I enter mentally into that imagined Temple to administer its rites. It stands in stark contrast to all that is abstract — to all that can be reasoned away or reduced to metaphor.”
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Item descri“The story of the Immovable Ladder is this: it was left on a balcony of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by a careless mason in 1750 and has sat there ever since. The six orders of monks, in whose ruthless stewardship the church is kept, have divided the church into blocks of turf, which they guard with fervor, and sometimes with fists.“
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“Everyone else is really part of society but I am only pretending.”
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