Carry Yourself With The Confidence Of A Mediocre White Man

Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

image from here

[Be the first to try to complicate things that nobody has complicated]

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

Sad Night Dynamite

literally destroy superabundance. starve the flesh, shave the hair, expose the bone, clarify the mind, define the will, restrain the senses, leave the family, flee the church, kill the vermin, vomit the heart, forget the dead. limit time, forgo amusement, deny nature, reject acquaintances, discard objects, forget truths, dissect myths, stop motion, block impulse, choke sobs, swallow chatter. scorn joy, scorn touch, scorn tragedy, scorn liberty, scorn constancy, scorn hope, scorn exaltation, scorn reproduction, scorn variety, scorn embellishment, scorn release, scorn rest, scorn sweetness, scorn light. it’s a question of form as much as function. it is a matter of revulsion.

“I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”

— Sylvia Plath, from ‘Elm’, Collected Poems

knuckle tattoos that say ESCAPED BIOHAZARD

Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky