Status Updates From Extinctions

“Orpheus is the God of the Underworld, Callum, the poet and prophet who tried to bring his beloved wife back from the dead, and then disregarded Hades’ warning: ‘do not look back.’”

“He had examined the booties in more detail. So much work for something that would only fit for a few months. It had struck him that knitting 🧶 for babies was a kind of ephemeral engineering, there was design and labour and materiality and technique. It was love-work.”

Haha, ephemeral engineering…

“Humble, a state of humility. Humility, from the Latin humus, meaning earth.”

“Death robbed you of beginnings as well as ends.”

Hmmm 🤔

“ ‘Destiny is an easy God,’ he said ‘it relieves you of the burden of choice, and the tragedy of having no choice at all.’ “

“Love is a feeling. But it’s also like yoga 🧘. You have to do it over and over again, and then you have to accept you’ll never be perfect.”

“Buddhists say you have to be careful that your possessions don’t end up possessing you.”

“The Chinese believe you should never eat someone’s food just because you feel sorry for them. It gives you indigestion.”

“Like many educated people, Frederick had his opinions, most which were set in concrete so as to render them more akin to truths,”

Haha, I know these sort of people!