Operating Entirely On Caffeine And Spite

MICHELANGELO Last Judgment (detail) 1537-41 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican

“your body my choice” how about your nuts my knee

"You were in my dreams last night" yeah our souls have been clawing through our chests to get to each other since we met but I'm glad you noticed

August 5, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

i have looks of a authoritative law professor, the attitude of a bastard and a soul of a whore. no you cannot beat me

why do i even do this

Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life. It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out. He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary. A take I found online that I think is interesting: "Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him. When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense. These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive? We're animals just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. 'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

A review from Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account, published Jan 31, 2024

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

saw someone say Henry would be a flat-earther and i couldn't disagree more. not because he’s smart, but because the ancient greeks and romans knew the earth was round. if they didn’t think the earth was round THEN Henry would be a flat-earther.

so no, Henry would not be a flat-earther. but he definitely thought women had less teeth than men because of Aristotle. and probably other very dumb but old ideas about the world.

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022