just because you sit comfortably in the middle of the cage rather than rattling the bars doesn’t mean it’s walls aren’t there. just because you run deftly ahead of the whip, never feeling its sting, doesn’t mean it isn’t still cracking behind you. coercion is still coercion and you are a fool to identify yourself with your jailers.
“Those who do not move do not notice their chains.”
–Rosa Luxemburg
I am haunted by all the editions of books that are prettier than the ones I already own.
A FINE EXAMPLE OF DESERT GLASS FROM THE IMPACT OF AN ASTEROID ON EARTH
A complete specimen of lemon-flesh-yellow Libyan Desert Glass, a natural glass formed from melted sand during an asteroid impact.
A pronounced scalloping along the contours, the surfaces with striations and grooves as a result of epochs of sandblasting by desert winds.
Sahara desert
Christie’s