The Laughing heart

by Charles Bukowski your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you […]

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A question

This would be a very valid comment for a simple work of fiction. Kierkegaard though used a writing method that is increadibly cleaver. What he did was create, through the use of books and essays, an enormous Platonic dialouge. The authors of his philosophical essays all have their own distinct and defendable philosphical positions and […]

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På randen af eksistens

Nationalpoet og landsforræder Hamsuns forfatterskab er i sjælden grad paradoksalt; vitalistisk og romantisk, skræmmende reaktionært og forbløffende moderne. Og derfor genstand for en mildt sagt ambivalent og modstræbende beundring. I 1920 blev han tildelt Nobelprisen, i 1948 dømt for landsforræderi. Han havde en særlig evne til at vække modvilje hos læseren og holdt sig arrogant […]

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Straight Lines

Observations broken into lines. Beautiful observations broken into perfect lines. SmokeLong Quarterly features flash fiction. Such as Straight Lines. In Straight Lines, the mundane and the surreal blend as two siblings search for realness in a family that values frivolous distraction. I loved how the narrator’s adolescent isolation is undercut by a dry and biting […]

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Do you have these intense moments

Do you have these intense moments when something is about to happen and you feel that something very important is coming up like a strange coincidence which isn’t really a coincidence but you can’t really say what it is not without ruining the moment so you should just let it happen because today everything comes […]

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Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” artist Louise Bourgeoise wrote in her diary at the end of a long and illustrious life as she contemplated how solitude enriches creative work. It’s a lovely sentiment, but as empowering as it may be to those […]

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