君子不器
“Given the proliferation of rumors, and the speed at which they circulate online, the government realized that measures like deleting posts and shutting down microblog accounts had lost their effectiveness. So it began a campaign to prosecute bloggers. On Sept. 9, the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a ruling stipulating that defamatory…
“The femme fatale is one of the most mesmerizing of sexual personae. She is not a fiction but an extrapolation of biologic realities in women that remain constant. The North American Indian myth of the toothed vagina {vagina dentata) is a gruesomely direct transcription of female power and male fear. Metaphorically, every vagina has secret…
The Long Goodbye. Clothes, Scooters.
The king asked, ‘How may the difference between the not doing a thing, and the not being able to do it, be represented? Mencius replied,‘In such a thing as taking the Tai mountain under your arm, and leaping over the north sea with it, if you say to people “I am not able to do…
LINK: “Where stray or personal thoughts have intruded, you may delete them.”
Luke Melia “The automatic rifle fire was followed by an unnerving whistle at Ti’s ear. He gripped the shopping bags, grabbed Lo Ling’s arm and pulled her into a sprint. Together they made for the alleys with the rest of the crowd. He could not believe it – the troops were shooting again. His shock…
Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away…