Sorry I forgot to post this here

Dinka maiden with songbull wearing a trilby hat and carrying a spear. 1952.

Photo by Keystone

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." W.E.B. Du Bois.

After a longer silence, the girl asked: 'Would you go back? If you could?' 'You mean, without the wave?' 'Yes. Without the wave.' 'Then I'd have gone home, and everyone would have been alive, and I would be a man.' 'Would you rather be that man? Would you change places with him?' asked the ghost girl. 'And not be me? Not know about the globe? Not have met you?' 'Yes!' Mau opened his mouth to reply and found it choked with words. He had to wait until he could see a path through them. 'How can I answer you? There is no language. There was a boy called Mau. i see him in my memory, so proud of himself because he was going to be a man. He cried for his family and turned the tears into rage. And if he could, he would say "Did not happen!" and the wave would roll backward and never have been. But there is another boy, and he is called Mau, too, and his head is on fire with new things. What does he say? He was born in the wave, and he knows that the world is round, and he met a ghost girl who is sorry she shot at him. He called himself the little blue hermit crab, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever. Will you ask him not to be? Any answer will be the wrong one. All I can be is who I am. But sometimes I hear the boy inside crying for his family.' 'Does he cry now?' asked Daphne, looking down at the ground. 'Every day. But very softly. You won't hear him.'

--Terry Pratchett, "Nation"

(Hey, if you're a Discworld fan and haven't read this book may I recommend it? Also: hey, if you've heard of this Terry Pratchett guy and how great he is, but think Discworld wouldn't be your thing for one reason or another? May I recommend this excellent book as a gateway to Pratchett's writing? It's about upheaval, and grief, and healing. It is beautifully written, and I swear it'll rip out your heart and then put it back in but different. Or, if your heart has already been stricken, it might offer some solace or hope.)

mark // 230917 nct nation : to the world - in japan

It is the very concept of the nation that needs to be suppressed — or rather, the manner in which the word is used. For the word national and the expressions of which it forms part are empty of all meaning; their only content is millions of corpses, and orphans, and disabled men, and tears and despair.

Simone Weil, "The Power of Words"

assaulted student flats i can hear your conch shell ganges dream 

i want your name to mean something

you're thrashing them for their fictions 

your fictions rota proudly idolatrous

im creakingly cowardly for you all my chairs are tables black sparrows

you can't loathe what loathes itself

you die for meticulous death monsoon

no one's better than a gold bar not even your all exclusive vietnam vacation

not even macrobian man or aesthetics

culture wars spin out haemal haircut 

approaching heat my sole perplexed friend a kitchen wasp

we spiel elle korean pop nuclear launch

cyberpunk filtered photo resembles the flashy filter same uniqueness

your mughal era land survey uniqueness

wait for their ozymandian prophecy 

everyone believes in something bigger than vainglory themselves

so make me your little baby fish symptom

True patriotism is not the love of the soil, it is the love of the past, it is respect for the generations which have gone before us.

- T.S. Eliot

My lil Reigen finally arrived.

Psalm 33:12 (NIV) - Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He chose for His inheritance.

"Our values should extend beyond the present, beyond our nation,

and beyond our species 🌊 !".

IF YOU LIKE THE BOOK OF MORMON OR FALSETTOS FOLLOW MY ACCOUNT!!!!

I want to start a nation of TBOM and Falsettos fans

FINGERS CROSSED THIS REACHES THE RIGHT PEOPLE 🤞🤞🤞

a photograph of my great-great-great grandmother, Rapsime Arzanova, and her husband with their 5 sons. those that stand: Nerses, Avet and Sumbat (my great-grandfather). Those who are sitting: Ruben and Suren.

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