Done with smoke, done with shatter, the shamed lead the shameful to the shore, with its boats of bones, ships of shadows, blind seers, and dead crews bending to oars.
My life’s course—my separation from most people, my extinguished hopes, the accumulation of final betrayals—seems almost preordained by the place where I first drew breath...
Graffiti magically appeared on the walls of the federal detention center: "FUCK ICE" and "DEATH TO ICE" and "FUCK DONALD TRUMP" but also farewell messages like "LOVE YOU DADDY."
Nietzsche: In fact, we philosophers and ‘free spirits’ feel ourselves irradiated as by a new dawn by the report that the ‘old God is dead’; our hearts overflow with gratitude, astonishment, presentiment and expectation.
One just isn’t oneself without the mind, so I realized I had better go find it. But where? Somehow, I sensed through some profound connection that my brain had wandered far, far away on a grand adventure through obscure corners of the universe.
It's one-part surrealism, one-part sci-fi social commentary, one-part philosophical/theological waxing and one-part dark and comedic literary fiction. And Goffman is our long-white-bearded, half-mad wizard-alchemist who mixes it all together and gives us the final product, the potion, in words and sentences expertly.
While Cole went through neighborhoods and places as an observer taking notes, and Vassilakis is reporting out from a new world he’s now in, Schumacher is making up worlds and characters as he goes along.
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