J Alfred
@zapatero.bsky.social
Eating peaches because why tf not?
In art process gives meaning to results. In engineering results justify the process. In spirituality results disappear when the process halts.
#art #engineering #spirituality
#art #engineering #spirituality
September 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
In art process gives meaning to results. In engineering results justify the process. In spirituality results disappear when the process halts.
#art #engineering #spirituality
#art #engineering #spirituality
What’s it mean to improve chaos? to make the chaos exemplary? Textbook chaos? Or to make the chaos more chaotic? Is there such a thing as more chaotic? Or is each chaos equally chaotic and really there’s no such thing as improving chaos?
September 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
What’s it mean to improve chaos? to make the chaos exemplary? Textbook chaos? Or to make the chaos more chaotic? Is there such a thing as more chaotic? Or is each chaos equally chaotic and really there’s no such thing as improving chaos?
In an English class, I asked why would the woman come and go speaking of Michelangelo? After all he was gay.
Everyone looked at me like I was a dumbass. Because of his art stupid.
And then I said oh yeah, right I get it.
The art. Not the artist.
Everyone looked at me like I was a dumbass. Because of his art stupid.
And then I said oh yeah, right I get it.
The art. Not the artist.
July 24, 2026 at 6:34 AM
In an English class, I asked why would the woman come and go speaking of Michelangelo? After all he was gay.
Everyone looked at me like I was a dumbass. Because of his art stupid.
And then I said oh yeah, right I get it.
The art. Not the artist.
Everyone looked at me like I was a dumbass. Because of his art stupid.
And then I said oh yeah, right I get it.
The art. Not the artist.
July 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM
July 2, 2026 at 3:47 AM
- There’s a stray dog running around the neighborhood.
That’s so sad.
It’s not diverse here.
The dog must be so bored.
#conversations #straydog
That’s so sad.
It’s not diverse here.
The dog must be so bored.
#conversations #straydog
July 1, 2026 at 6:45 AM
- There’s a stray dog running around the neighborhood.
That’s so sad.
It’s not diverse here.
The dog must be so bored.
#conversations #straydog
That’s so sad.
It’s not diverse here.
The dog must be so bored.
#conversations #straydog
If you boil a pot of water and drop an egg in, it will turn solid, hard after a few minutes. When it cools it will remain solid. I can’t explain the biochemistry of what happens. I just know it happens.
I experience the universe and astrophysics in the same way.
#astrophysics #universe #eggs
I experience the universe and astrophysics in the same way.
#astrophysics #universe #eggs
June 28, 2026 at 5:21 PM
If you boil a pot of water and drop an egg in, it will turn solid, hard after a few minutes. When it cools it will remain solid. I can’t explain the biochemistry of what happens. I just know it happens.
I experience the universe and astrophysics in the same way.
#astrophysics #universe #eggs
I experience the universe and astrophysics in the same way.
#astrophysics #universe #eggs
Stoner became aware that he was in the presence of a bluff, so colossal and bold that he had no ready means of dealing with it.
Note: this is very similar to how he reacts to Edith. Stoner had no means of dealing with it.
Note: this is very similar to how he reacts to Edith. Stoner had no means of dealing with it.
June 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Stoner became aware that he was in the presence of a bluff, so colossal and bold that he had no ready means of dealing with it.
Note: this is very similar to how he reacts to Edith. Stoner had no means of dealing with it.
Note: this is very similar to how he reacts to Edith. Stoner had no means of dealing with it.
He also knew that beyond her intention, or understanding, unknown to herself, Edith was trying to announce to him a new declaration of war.
June 17, 2026 at 5:54 AM
He also knew that beyond her intention, or understanding, unknown to herself, Edith was trying to announce to him a new declaration of war.
William Stoner is the slightly successful J Alfred Prufrock.
June 17, 2026 at 4:44 AM
William Stoner is the slightly successful J Alfred Prufrock.
I feel alone. I feel sad. But I also feel determined to push forward. I will try. I will attempt. I will continue to desire without the benefit of hope. That’s how I feel now. I will not give up dreaming of falling in love, but at the same time, nothing is on hold waiting for that to happen.
June 16, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I feel alone. I feel sad. But I also feel determined to push forward. I will try. I will attempt. I will continue to desire without the benefit of hope. That’s how I feel now. I will not give up dreaming of falling in love, but at the same time, nothing is on hold waiting for that to happen.
Feelings remain a mystery to me, perhaps… Whenever I think of Anthea‘s death and the effort it took to hold her in my arms, tears come into my eyes. I try to imagine myself being warm: there’s always a point when the whip cracks.
Harpman was a psychoanalyst when she wrote I who have never known men
Harpman was a psychoanalyst when she wrote I who have never known men
June 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Feelings remain a mystery to me, perhaps… Whenever I think of Anthea‘s death and the effort it took to hold her in my arms, tears come into my eyes. I try to imagine myself being warm: there’s always a point when the whip cracks.
Harpman was a psychoanalyst when she wrote I who have never known men
Harpman was a psychoanalyst when she wrote I who have never known men
I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct. Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence. There is nothing we can do about it.
June 5, 2026 at 8:07 AM
I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct. Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence. There is nothing we can do about it.
There is no continuity and the world I have come from is utterly foreign to me. I haven’t heard its music, I haven’t seen its paintings, I haven’t read its books, ….
“I who have never known men” reminds me of Waiting for the Barbarians.
“I who have never known men” reminds me of Waiting for the Barbarians.
June 5, 2026 at 5:57 AM
There is no continuity and the world I have come from is utterly foreign to me. I haven’t heard its music, I haven’t seen its paintings, I haven’t read its books, ….
“I who have never known men” reminds me of Waiting for the Barbarians.
“I who have never known men” reminds me of Waiting for the Barbarians.
All I know about them is what they don’t want. They have an extraordinary passion for what they dislike.
June 3, 2026 at 5:27 AM
All I know about them is what they don’t want. They have an extraordinary passion for what they dislike.
‘You want to hear my secrets,’ I said, ‘but all you can do is inform me of your wishes.’
I Who Have Never Known Men
— Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
— Jacqueline Harpman
June 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM
‘You want to hear my secrets,’ I said, ‘but all you can do is inform me of your wishes.’
I Who Have Never Known Men
— Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
— Jacqueline Harpman
What Wittgenstein said: what you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside of this body.
He’s mostly right. We can create proxies that express things we had never thought to say
He’s mostly right. We can create proxies that express things we had never thought to say
May 27, 2026 at 5:08 AM
What Wittgenstein said: what you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside of this body.
He’s mostly right. We can create proxies that express things we had never thought to say
He’s mostly right. We can create proxies that express things we had never thought to say
The liminal person is still teleological. If the liminal person stops being teleological than they will discover what Nietzsche meant when he said "God is dead."
May 26, 2026 at 7:35 AM
The liminal person is still teleological. If the liminal person stops being teleological than they will discover what Nietzsche meant when he said "God is dead."
Hello San Diego! Anyone remember that old Boomtown Rats song I Don't Like Mondays? I've been reminded of it.
May 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Hello San Diego! Anyone remember that old Boomtown Rats song I Don't Like Mondays? I've been reminded of it.
Remember Gattaca? Any piece of writing that has not been touched, not even edited, by an AI shall be a called a God Document.
This is a God Text.
This is a God Text.
Gattaca: Man Gazing at Orrery and Light Bulb
ALT: Gattaca: Man Gazing at Orrery and Light Bulb
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May 19, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Remember Gattaca? Any piece of writing that has not been touched, not even edited, by an AI shall be a called a God Document.
This is a God Text.
This is a God Text.