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Sarah Buchmann
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“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.
Your first parent was a star.”
― Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Your first parent was a star.”
― Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”
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“He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”
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Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”
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“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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