Caleb Mosley > Recent Status Updates

just got gay. very tender very useful. he loves jumping between timelines mid chapter and im a fan of it, always anticipating and looking forward to the tie in.

“I thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply.”

A journey of emotions, starting with his white Grandpa — that he interestingly calls “Paul” as he tells the story — crying in a way that Little Dog describes as an animal wail. A section about identity and this introduction of skin color in America. Cool way to bring in Tiger Woods and his ethnicity, but also the origin of his name being a product of the Vietnam War.

this is sad

first of all, woah

“When asked about the difficulties of sculpture, Michelangelo said, ‘It is easy. You just chip away all the stone that isn’t David.’ …I want to be the chisel, not the David. What can I make of being here? And what can I make of not?”

“Martyr. I want to scream it in an airport. I want to die killing the president. Ours and everyone’s. I want them all to have been right to fear me… I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”

didn’t know i needed an interlude but glad i got it

"And look at what belief in that kind of total good versus total evil did. Hitler listening to Wagner in Nuremberg. That's what I’m getting at, you see? The flatness of me being this hero artist, or you being this martyr NSA threat. None of that is real. You know this. I'm not Siegfried any more than you're a dragon."

“…the whole idea of gratitude was possibly classist, or worse. Did a poor Syrian child…qualify for grace only if she possessed a superhuman ability to look beyond her hardship and notice the beauty of a single flower growing through a pile of rubble? And would the gratitude for that flower be contaminated by the awareness, or ignorance, of the bodies turn-in to soil beneath it?”

aye not to be dramatic but this is actually one of the best books ever wtf?

“…just as a life of mere survival is insufficient for the flourishing of the spirit, the spirit is an insufficient support for human life if it lacks a full expression of its essence.”

writing about meeting with your high school lover and telling his four year old son “you could’ve been my child” could’ve shadowed over all the profound points made in the “Lulls” essay but i didn’t allow it

“Each story or poem has a formula, usually two-thirds ‘hate whitey’s guts’ and one third ‘I am black, beautiful, strong, and almost always right.’”

she funny af😭😭😭😭😭😭

“We are hungry for a life that turns us on; we yearn for a knowledge of living that will save us from our innocuous lives that resemble death. We look for signs in every strange event; we search for heroes in every unknown face.”

Ooou Alan when I catch you!

“That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.”

both of them pissing me off