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April 10 - April 13, 2023
To be broken down is an opportunity to be reborn. To be erased is an opportunity to reinvent yourself. All you need is a will as pure and voracious as a wolf’s.
Detective work is part guessing, part intuition. It is not exploring every possible venue but exploring the right one, following the correct leads and discarding the chaff.
It makes me think of militaries. The last chance at redemption or upward mobility, the naked exploitation of those with nothing left to lose.
“There isn’t a lot of difference between the military and public safety.” Both being state-sanctioned agents of ruin, frequently indiscriminate and occasionally interchangeable. Institutions of violence differ only in budget and uniforms.
“When we shear the world in half, we demarcate with great precision: those who wield themselves like a knife and those who wield themselves like a whip.”
Grief is an irrevocable beast: it can eat and eat until the meat and gristle are cleaned from the bones, and then it’ll crush the bones and swallow them down.