If i have failed to respond or communicate with you in a timely manner, please know that i am trying very hard to be a person
blake butler
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- Replying to @pourfairelevideHad one in Italy once who sat for at least ten minutes drinking wine while slowly asking questions about what people wanted. Will never forget him haha
- The day she died molly sent me a small book of poems she’d been writing over the last two months. It is called Folk Physics. This is the first poem from that
- Here’s 45 novels about the internet, lmk when you finish these and I’ll post some more
- Should i get "bush did 9/11" tattooed on my balls or as a trampstamp
- Everyone at my gym died I go in & lift weights by myself It's chill They did a good job while they were alive They had bodies They worked on their bodies I don't miss them The guy who always chewed on his shirt while he was running i miss the least In the future i'll die2
- Everything you write has taken your entire life to write
- Some of you never died in a forest fire wearing your mother's wedding gown and it shows
- The New York Times obit for Molly. Still doesn’t seem real. I love you and miss you so much. And I am learning to find you within me
- Everybody thinks they are one of the good guys
- Writing is the only art that anyone can make without a budget or access to equipment or expertise. In one sentence you can contain what 50 films could never, then you can follow that with another sentence. The price of entry is a willingness to explore
- One of the best novels ever written about the internetfinished B.R. Yeager’s Amygdalatropolis today. fucking hilarious: foreword dropping Bataille, Nietzsche, and waxing poetic about flesh, theology, and mysticism — and then you get to the story and it’s a bunch of people sharing snuff video links and calling each other the f-slur
- How marketable is your trauma? Have you found a way to make it fit squeaky clean into redemption? Can you make your life seem livable enough for others to want to click on, maybe even relate to? How long can you hold your breath?
