emily’s Reviews > Flights > Status Update
emily
is on page 270 of 410
‘—first thing that happens—disfigures space; it makes everything more cramped and more massive and unscalable. Details disappear and objects lose their features—becoming squat and indistinct; how strange that by day they may be spoken of as ‘beautiful’ or ‘useful’; now they look like shapeless bodies—hard to guess what they’d be for. Everything is hypothetical—She reads of disoriented whales swimming up onto beaches’
— Jan 29, 2026 12:20PM
5 likes · Like flag
emily’s Previous Updates
emily
is on page 300 of 410
‘What they want is to pin down the world with the aid of barcodes—letting it be known that everything is a commodity, that this is how much it will cost you. Let this new foreign language be illegible to humans, let it be read exclusively by automatons, machines. That way by night, in their great underground shops, they can organise readings of their own barcoded poetry. Move. Get going. Blessed is he who leaves.’
— 6 hours, 33 min ago
emily
is on page 210 of 410
‘‘A person who knows what he’s asking is someone who can expect an answer—what you need is that proverbial pinch that tips the scales.’ He—didn’t know—proverbs that had to do with scales & pinches. She had taken her husband’s last name—but her first name was fairly exotic—He thought she would burst into tears—but she just took another crouton—crumbled it onto—her salad. ‘Did you know I am a botanist by training?’’
— Jan 24, 2026 01:47PM
emily
is on page 33 of 410
‘Airports also have a soundtrack, a symphony of airplane engines, a couple of simple sounds that extend into a space devoid of rhythm, an Orthodox twin-engine choir, gloomy minor, infrared, infrablack, largo, based on a single chord that bores even itself. A requiem that opens with the potent introitus of take-off and closes with an amen descending into landing.’
— Jan 21, 2026 10:48AM
emily
is on page 12 of 410
‘I’m interested in whatever shape this may take—mistakes in the making—Anything that deviates from the norm—Shapes that don’t heed symmetry—not interested in the patterns so scrutinised by statistics that everyone celebrates w/ familiar/satisfied smiles—My weakness is for teratology & for freaks. I believe—unswervingly—agonisingly—that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface—reveals its true nature—’
— Jan 19, 2026 12:14PM
