Rec | CRYPTIC SYMBOLISMS AND THE NEVERMORE

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”Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins is a beautiful plead for an awakening. A DESIRE FOR FREEDOM IS NOT LIMITED TO THE DISTRICTS

@meantotoro

Mar 25, 2025

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what richard Adams had to say about COLLECTIVE consciousness in watership down:

[This is ostensibly a story for children] “Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin. Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September, assembling on the telephone wires, twittering, making short flights singly and in groups over the open, stubbly fields, returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lane — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending, in a mounting excitement, into swarms, and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great, unorganized flock, thick at the centre and ragged at the edges, which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part (but not all) of them know that the time has come: they are off, and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive; anyone seeing this has seen at the work the current that flows (among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily, if at all, as individuals) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will: has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea.”

@slowdazzle

Apr 27, 2024

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A Boat - Richard brautigan

I've posted it on here a million times, and I'll post it a million more. For me, it embodies a lonely tenderness unlocked by being shown beauty by others, and which ultimately, redeems you to the world and most importantly *yourself*. I'm trying to leave my evil forest.