mixedmedia

I chose this for this week's essay club get together. Wouldn't be right to pre-talk it much.

But suffice it to say, as much as I hate this essay, unfortunately it is right about a lot of things. I'll talk more later.

Empire, post-empire. Real subtle.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce