![]() ![]() Anyone can go Beulah, but only good people with respectful intentions should attend, don't you think? Without Tilly's tolerance and generosity, her patience and skills, our lives - mine especially - would not have been enriched.The organism - there was no other thing she could think to call it - churned and moved as it propelled itself across the ground, the living bodies of animals briefly appearing before being submerged in a sea of bugs as others rose to the surface.Death is number one on the list of things that we wish to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like a sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity.Timon: Would thou were clean enough to spit upon! ― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.Many times, we refer to people who express hate or behave in a brutal, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection, we can clearly see that this is, in fact, an insult to animals.Savages fight battles waged at night.― Lance Conrad Soldiers fight battles waged in daylight.The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their characteristic attitudes. The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more thoroughly we identify ourselves with those we condemn.“Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.” – Anthony Liccione.Anyone who forgets this and doesn't guard against it risks being swept away by it. ![]()
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