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I felt like i was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. i imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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I Felt Like I Was Some Kind

Elizabeth Gilbert

I felt like i was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. i imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

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So i should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, i’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. the core is the core is the core. there is always the core, that can’t be articulated. only caricatured.

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Everything that comes together falls apart. everything. the chair i’m sitting on. it was built, and so it will fall apart. i’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. and you’re gonna fall apart. the cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. the buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: entropy increases. things fall apart.

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. it seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... i am not afraid of the word tension. i have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

The classics are only primitive literature. they belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

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