Monday, March 30, 2026
I listen to a lifetime of noise and song. I'm left here in my own self with a ringing in my ears. Everything I ever heard is here with me. Some day I may not be able to see the world anymore, and I'll still have ghostly images in my head, like visual echoes of the lost and found world, and an astral ringing in my ears.
The graveyard of empire is expanding. I feel better about it now. I'm gleaning the making of americans. I feel better about it now. It may not last. I simplified the arrangement of flowers in the kitchen, composting the dead ones. I feel better about it now. When I went up to see the chron I thought of a worker saying in his head maybe emerging from a hazy dream, What if I go to work in the land grab this morning only to find there's nothing there? I'm sorry it's there, but I feel grateful for documenting it every single day, and I feel better about it now.
Always from the beginning there was to me all living as repeating. This is now a description of my feeling. As I was saying listening to repeating is often irritating, always repeating is all of living, everything in a being is always repeating, more and more listening to repeating gives to me completed understanding.
Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Every one then has in their living repeating, repeating of every kind of thing in them, repeating of the kind of impatient feeling they have in them, of the anxious feeling almost every one has more or less always in them.
There is then a whole to living, mostly everybody has for this an anxious feeling, some have have not any such anxious feeling to the whole of them, many have the anxious feeling in every minute of their living, every minute is a whole to them with an anxious feeling which each minute ends them.
Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans
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