scruta

Carrel

Verispellous

An underdog only knows successes as something singular, abnormal, but incredibly sweet – an oasis in the desert, the sudden respite of a long journey. Unlike the champion, they can never know the spoils of success or consistent victory – the verdant valleys, settlement and prosperity. The underdog will envy the champion for the continuity of his excellence, seeming effortlessness in the face of adversity; the champion will envy the underdog for that sweetness of victory after a great struggle no-one, not even they themselves thought they could win.

Nacreous

Ephebe

I dream of an art within myself that looks into the shadows, rises above, and then finds a way to keep light burning in the darkness.

Farrago

Weft

Li

Hey, did you go down there last Thursday?

Zhou

The square?

Li

Yeah.

Zhou

No, did you?

Li

What’s the point?

Zhou

Yeah.

The essence of friendship is a conversation that never ends. Even as friends jump into separate taxis, part ways in train stations, board planes across oceans, or leave life entirely, the conversation continues in absentia; the conversation never ends.

I often whisper to myself in the night: “Yes, you have it all already.” I don’t know if that means to keep going, or just to stop and stand still.

One speaks gloom and doom so they might see only happiness before their eyes. Incantations of evil are ultimately harbingers of the good.