Dreimehrparsec - The Light Like Lead

Hi and welcome. My name is Arial and this is my blog I will use to let my thoughts out into the world, sometimes. If you feel like staying here – make yourself at home.

Tonight I've realized I have free will and can do whatever the hell I want, isn't that awesome?

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

Einsturzende Neubauten

Joscelyn Godwin, Robert Fludd, Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds

where does a body end? (1/?)

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

Zeus' s Dog (Study) - Mia Bergeron , 2024.

American, b. 1979   -    

Oil on panel ,  5.5 x 8 in.

“Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.”

Franz Kafka, The Trial