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Rimowa Topas,
suppurating
apotemnophilia
pusillanimous
“Vraiment? Il s’agit d’une maladie sérieuse?”
‘The Judicious Destruction of the Insect Religion.’
cineastes.
solipsist
lacunae,
philosospasm”
She was talking about philosophical and social awarenesses, breakthroughs of cognition which were inextricably mixed with potent emotional mandates.
But it was an intellectual homeliness, by which I mean her physical presence asked you to discount it and concentrate instead on her penetrating and holistic intelligence, on the immediate and effortless gestalt she created which enveloped you and nourished and even exhilarated you.
It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life-forms on other planets, when underneath the very feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life-forms imaginable.
marabunta,
Simone de Beauvoir
