''This is all I need: grief counselling from my own assassin.''
Greg Egan, 'The Walk' (Axiomatic, 1990).
“God's ubiquity evokes oceanic imagery for mystics of all traditions. As a drop of water dissolved into the sea, so we are waves in an ocean of God. And, like fishes unable to comprehend the ocean within which they live, we too must push our language and imagery to describe the divine All. The most common word Jewish mystics choose to describe God is ‘Nothing.’ However, as we shall see, the God they describe is much more than nothing…
[The word Ayin] connotes not the absence of being, but the absence of any boundaries — that is, no ‘thing,’ a nothing that encompasses all creation. Ayin is therefore the font of all being, the substrate of creation. The Kabbalists called God Ayn Sof, endless. Not only can’t you own it, you cannot alter it, change it, or affect it in any way whatsoever. You cannot point to it. You can't even accurately say as much about it as we've already said. It is as if we were waves and it were the ocean. You and I, this book in your hands, the trees, the people we love, even the love itself, all of creation-they are all the waves, yesh, made of that ocean of Ayin, manifestations of that great underlying nothingness and oneness of all being.”
— Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. The Way into Jewish Mystical Tradition, pages 17-18.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
radio is kind of wild really, the first thing we did after discovering an ethereal field that permeates the universe is infuse it with music.
gotta say I am here for the friendships of the main 4. they went from strangers to ‘that seems like a shitty idea but I will help you and also yes I would die for you’. female friendships really are it.
Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll: Lanyon
Looks like a cinnamon roll, but could kill you: Jekyll
Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll: Utterson
Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you: Hyde
hannibal lecter truly thee character of all time. hes an aquarius. hes bisexual. hes european. hes a cannibal. hes in love. hes an artist. hes a monster. hes way too human. hes a haunted house. hes a god. hes a devotee. hes a bit pathetic