I was always mortified. Didn’t they know they were tying their mothers to the ground? Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners?
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander


Surreal Football: The Surreal Football Magazine #3 →

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As the world has not given us a Pulitzer for the second magazine yet - they claim we haven’t been nominated, we assure them we know a conspiracy when we see it - we had little choice but to cobble together the third magazine. After strenuous bouts of sexual favours, arguments about who was going…

I should have been under famous Americans but being with Futfanatico isn’t so bad 



Loneliness as a madness

Loneliness is like madness. In fact, loneliness is madness. It’s incredibly addictive and comes with a skewed awareness that leads one distrust happiness and the anything that might precede it. My favorite songs, no matter which genres usually deal with sadness, the sadness of being alone (which is a completely different concept) or failed struggle. Not that I am an eternal black cloud, but I find myself beginning to enjoy the sadness of loneliness more than I should, which is to be honest, not at all. As I am at the moment in the process of creating a playlist titled alone” which contains songs like Jay’Z’s “lucky me” and “minority report” to Blink 182’s “Adam’s song” and Gaslight Anthem’s “American slang” and “drive”, it’s becoming apparent after more than 100 songs already, that there is something wrong here. There is a deeper issue here brought by early teenage heartbreak and subsequent refusal to ever return the emotions of anyone else after that and too many nights empathizing with Bruce Springsteen over imaginary lovers. The point being that, loneliness like depression becomes its own home and such a comfortable one that anything that draws you to sunlight is, in your screwed perspective, an emotional Judas. Which is absolutely wrong, one should never wallow in despair, never this long, no matter the lies told that no place feels like home. It has been almost seven years, and maybe this too, like all things will pass. But for now, blame Bruce. 



You asked me yesterday if I could imagine myself torturing. When I consider the question, every fiber of my being rebels. “But not me!”

But what is my reflex reaction other than exactly the same mechanism that allows you to disavow the destructiveness in yourself?

“But not me!” And I make excuses for myself.

“I did it for my country.” And you exonerate yourself.

Obedience—or, let’s say, the loyalty that makes the coexistence of human beings possible—is the deepest of our traps.

Alexander. I dreamt of your fingers, and they looked just like mine.

Erwin Koch


This quote always comes to my head whenever the tragedy like today’s school shooting happens



All I want from myself is to observe life. There’s a glass sheet between me and it. I want the
glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what’s behind it,
but I always want the glass.
— Fernando Pessoa


and because they knew from life only life as it gave
itself, they didn’t ask what is after their fates and their graves.
— Mahmoud Darwish


This is something I was still wanting to tell you. Opportunity makes the torturer. For Milgram, the white lab coat of a scientist and a lie were enough: You have no choice. You must continue!
Erwin Koch


Who am I now? In this given moment, on this day, in this month, in this moment fleeing from the deadly heat? Where did that mischievous, lustful one go, who just two days ago was writhing in bed at night, whoring?
Raji Bathish


This is your inheritance, Joe. This will teach you that you can never get your childhood back.
Barlen Pyamootoo


I had to die to find out whether anybody loved me. When alive, I was never very popular, and it was a real problem for me that I fought very vigorously and quite without success.
Sergi Pàmies


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