yo wanna see a post I woke up at 3am to write for reasons unknown?
No, but you’re going to show me anyway
super accurate answer!!! please enjoy this cheerful excerpt from my drafts folder:
And I see before me a pulsing pulsating mountain of flesh, throbbing and convulsing and convalescing before my eyes, and I know that this is History, in all its gory. I know that I am watching the present scab over into the past, a wound forever healing itself and never quite succeeding. QueuePost
I sent this to my professor because we just did an essay about the meaning of time and such, this was her response
Thanks, [my name],
It is poignant! An evocative image that Dōgen would surely appreciate, too.
I hope you have a balanced weekend.
Warmly,
Dr. [Professor]
Just thought you should know.
it both concerns and delights me the number of times students have sent my posts to their college and high school teachers
NASA lands a ship on a planet where one second is equivalent to one year on Earth. The stay was meant to be very brief, until an unknown astronaut walked up, exclaiming, “What in the hell?! It’s been a WEEK!! That’s 604,800 years in Earth time! What happened that took you guys so long?!”