The Fell

by Robert Jenkins

‘The purpose of my classes is not to change your mind on such matters. The purpose is to help you understand and explain why you want to act so … and give you the tools to present your argument in an academic fashion so that should you ever manage to execute all the fucking philosophers in the universe, you will know why you have done so and be able to rationalise your actions.

Sunset was a final kiss of a day lived right through and a reminder before the dark came that the dreaded sorrow of night would pass and these colours would come again and again if you only looked for them and looked up.

all the people in the world came out of Africa, even white people before they got bleached by the sickness of evil and greed.

Do you know why they teach soldiers to go left right left right? It’s not so they look pretty on the parade ground, it’s because once you learn it and it becomes your nature you can keep going even when everything else fails and you are ground down and lost and barbarous. Left right left right, like soldier.

‘It seems we never stop grieving, child. But we must find ways to celebrate the days of our beloveds. They are still here, just changed. They are on the evening wind and warm sun and the soft rain and they watch over us in the night. They are in the air we breathe. Maybe in some way in their passing they become even closer to us, more precious and life giving. Inhale deeply, child, and breathe them in.