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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedthe academics will call it new religiosity, but we know the truth, and call it what it is. the gods returning.how are we going to solve the problem of climate changelings.Noah was making waves before the flood beganour consciousness is different and thus reality itself is different. we can be friends with spirits and creatures in ways our ancestors never even imagined. and new ones too. the gods have not only ...

a fiction magazine

since time immemorial, man has dreamed of a magazine with short stories that he could take to the toilet instead of his smartphone. or at least i have, since early june this year.

that’s when i became conscious of it. not long before that, i went to the lulu website to check on the state of the proof copy for my last novel, and i noticed something on the projects page. it was a draft for a magazine, and it had nothing except the title, hypnagothic. i remembered thinking of this word but not why,...

the music room

The night was young, and so were they, yet when his friend invited him to the house party he was inclined to say no. But there will be girls, his friend insisted, to which he replied tersely, All the more reason not to go. Now that things with Julia were over for good, and since she was still all he could think about, the idea of other girls made him more nauseous than excited. Look, I know you’re not over her, that’s normal, you were together on and off for almost three years, but it’s also tru...

head first, so to speak

If we were to ask him why he is so manically going through these boxes left by the dumpster, he would find it hard to explain. He would perhaps begin by saying that he’s been looking for a woman. But then he would have gotten tongue tied, because the story did not make any sense. And if the hypothetical inquirer would press for more, and ask, If you can’t explain it, why are you dumpster diving, he would take issue with the expression. It’s not accurate to call it that, he never checks whatever ...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedthe Tao:does not competeis not compatible does not computegive or take everyone's on the take and it's got to giveanimals i'd be: a raccoon on the earth, a shrew under it, a shark in the ocean, a vulture in the skyeverything is intentional. but it's not always our intention.people ask how pandas survive in the wild, given how many videos we have of them acting so silly and with complete disregard for ...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedtwenty six is the ideal size for a group. thirteen men and thirteen women. and multiples of that.if you keep hearing it described as a community (as in the something something community, or the what have you community) that grouping is, as such, quite likely evil and irredeemable.revolutionaries tear down walls, visionaries climb themduring the end of the world it's still easy to have a good time, but having a g...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedmy wife was telling me yesterday that it's funny how whenever i get into something new very strongly, like music, or gardening, or now fiction, whatever, my instinct is to encourage people to do the same. not just be more creative in general, but specifically. i guess idealistically i believe it would be better for people to not only read books by others, but to write their own, and so on with everything else. objectively t...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedno one cares if you only do one of anything.every "ancient tradition" was invented in the nineteenth century. now it's time for us to do it.that i know, there are no Guenon fan girls. but there are plenty of Steiner fan girls. (someone told me since that this was the case from the beginning). so the latter is likely closer to the truth. this is as good a way to decide as any, and honestly better than most.s...

eye queue

The child was bright. Before entering elementary school it could only be seen in a vacuum, there were no other children around his age in the family, and it would be meaningless to compare the intelligence of a child to that of an adult, or even of an adolescent, not to mention an injustice, and thus, the child’s true potential was not fully grasped. But in the classroom the contrast between him and the other children became stark. He mastered in an hour what for others would take a week, and th...