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Jessica Thien
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All of it true too, though of course scars are much harder to read. Their complex inflections do not resemble the reductive ease of any tattoo, no matter how extensive, colorful or elaborate the design. Scars are the paler pain of survival, received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
— Oct 10, 2026 08:00AM
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Jessica Thien
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Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.
— 4 hours, 33 min ago
Jessica Thien
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People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
— 15 hours, 56 min ago
Jessica Thien
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Boredom is really a psychic defense protecting us from ourselves, from complete paralysis, by repressing, among other things, the meaning of that place, which in this case is and always has been horror.
— Oct 11, 2026 01:13PM
Jessica Thien
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In the future, readers of newspaper and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. In short, photographs will not seem as real as they once did.
— Oct 11, 2026 12:36PM
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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
— Oct 07, 2026 11:28AM