Fucking Around on the Internet is the New Doing Shit

• The new pornography (pictures of a lost paradise or something)
• The friend who asks, "Are you still blogging?"
  
• The friend who asks, "What are you reading?"
• A man and woman surviving a shipwreck and starting a new society, with no internet
• The CLOUD, a personification of Lacan's 'big Other', a symbolic representation of all the information available anywhere from anywhere, and by association, culture with a small 'c'
• Thought, "praxis"... poetic categories of Fucking Around
  

Spiritual Exercises

• Work hard to fall out of love
  

"Cut off from hope, we live on in desire."

--L'Inferno IV: 42 (Mark Musa tr.)

Think of What Might Happen

Death

"And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace fear when we are caught without
People or drink."

--From "Aubade" by Philip Larkin, 1977.
Larkin died in 1985.

"Out of ten nights dedicated to work by young men, seven are spent in sleep."

--Balzac, Old Goriot

Golden Boys, and Girls All Must

Like Scrap-Yard Trucks Find Hoes to Crush

Like Hungry Squirrels Find Nuts to Bust

Leave Worms and Birds a Feast of Guts