Category Archives: Being Human

Incantations: The Magic of Reading Aloud

Posted on June 22, 2018 by randomyriad

      The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Lovecraft cover art) by Gervasio Gallardo (b. 1934) I have read this very strange novel to myself and once to my then 3 year son, who loved it when I read him anything. I have … Continue reading →

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Thoughts About Thinking Our Way Forward

Posted on June 11, 2018 by randomyriad

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of … Continue reading →

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Keep Only What You Need

Posted on April 28, 2018 by randomyriad

from SYNTHETIC ZERØ

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Thoughts and Images of April

Posted on April 23, 2018 by randomyriad

Misremembered Movie From a Dream A talent show, Sing!, but with real people instead of cartoon animals. This feeling that I had been somewhere, but it was a different place.    I am forming a project to examine the layers … Continue reading →

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Poems of April 2018 #2

Posted on April 14, 2018 by randomyriad

Transfer He was misleading  The two women about his father’s ability to care for himself. He feared they would not take such a helpless man.   Dis-integration All this world wants of me is everything consumed, from beginning to end,  … Continue reading →

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