[Note that this is a translation of a translation. The information that was shared in my mind was filtered through the language that I have available to me in this incarnation (the "meat hotel" as N. so wonderfully put it). What I have written is all that I am able to recall, the next day, after the view has been occluded once more and the ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at retrospectives. I guess what I've personally learned from the study of History is that it's really just a conceit - that we can know or interpret events that have happened in the past. For me particularly, it would be kind of useless to try to put a year's worth of happenings into memory form; I've never had a very good long- ( Read more... )

Self-Erasure ( Read more... )

Not gonna lie, it's not the best birthday I've ever had.

In a way, though, that's okay.  I was planning (long before this) to do something fancy, a big party or something, because that's supposedly what you do when your physical body has reached this arbitrarily significant number of years of age.  To be honest, it's almost better this way, because ( Read more... )