American Roulette
'We are living in a state of moral truce, armed to the teeth with ideas.’
Brutality and Love
One could say [sports] are the precipitations of a most finely dispersed general hostility, which is deflected into athletic games. Of course, one could also say the opposite: that sports bring people together, promote the team spirit and all that—which basically proves only that brutality and love are no farther apart than one wing of a big, colorful, silent bird is from the other.
—Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
(Source: thegreatestshowpossible)
If we are not excessive in our demands and do not believe that we have conquered the world, we will attain a peace that is worth our effort. But we are just as quickly intoxicated as we are plunged into dejection, and I have the thankless task of pouring water into the bubbling wine and making it clear that we do not live alone in Europe but with three other Powers that hate and envy us.
—Otto von Bismarck, letter to his wife, July 9, 1866
My phone’s camera made a Rothko.
Townes Van Zandt — Standin’
Here in DC, paradoxically, once the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has approved Horus as your establishment’s patron, you are no longer allowed to sell or serve alcohol. So much for the separation of church and state.
