Nicholas Charles

But instead, I’m doom scrolling here

“Who else could you have been but exactly who you are? I said.” - George Saunders, Vigil

I do not care for this silence, it is quite unsettling.

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Voters are deeply unhappy with Trump… are you surprised? Honestly, who is surprised? If someone is surprised, they should have to wear a dunce cap for the next year or two.

Child: its word physics! Me: what’s word physics? Child: it’s the physics of words!

Pentagon staff handling and breaking Eisenhower’s globe is the metaphor par excellence for what these buffoons have done to the world order.

In my 44 era #birthday

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I hope I’m here in 20,000 years to see the night sky of Babylon.

I think I would take fame over love, Yet, if I cannot have fame, I guess I’ll put up with love.

It is not a love story: it is a tale of passion, an all consuming obsession - the human condition.

“ my sister always told me I am inspired her. I thought that’s what I was doing around here. I didn’t realize when I was talking to people I was bothering them. So from now on, I’ll just come in and do what I need to do and then leave. “ - A member of the public

A Sunday of reading: intimate & intelligent. @BethFennelly

In the face of existential limitations and possibly anxiety and despair, this poet acknowledges the limits of themselves and other’s. @CopperCanyonPrs

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Uncanny how I encountered Freud’s The Uncanny on a shelf in a bookstore, walked away, came back and it was already taken…this morning reading Zambreno’s Appendix Project and appendix c is on the uncanny.

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Oh, what a journey! I am pretty sure Gregor Samsa and Moby Dick had a love child, and this book is the result. @DeepVellum