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“this is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. seen so, war is the truest form of divination. it is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. war is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. war is god.”

“small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. the white whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.”

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“i go for a walk around downtown and: steinbach, closed, kitchen etc., closed. of course, abernathy’s, closed! and you know i want, i really want not to just click on amazon, but what can…? because like amazon’s nowhere so they can be anywhere, and sure that’s handy but what i want, what i’m missing is what — here-ness, ok?, herity. damn, there isn’t even a word for it, not a one that gets close, it must be important… but that’s it, you know; the grace of the heart that comes from something being here, just, right, here. where you can maybe drag a finger across it. see it in a window reflection. not when i want it, not when i need it, but enduring, earth-solid, a part of—”

“the gods of the valleys are not the gods of the hills.”