r/ProsePorn 9h ago

Some are born with storms

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Some people are born with storms in their life but constellations in their eyes;

Meanwhile others are born with stars at their feet but their souls are lost in the sea.


r/ProsePorn 10h ago

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

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"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose?"


r/ProsePorn 7h ago

Yonder Stands Your Orphan, Barry Hannah

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This Sunday morning Man Mortimer and Max Raymond sat in the pews of the same church, a little white steepled one in a glen set among live oaks and three acres of clover. The jungle swamps encroached on and squared the glen, deep green to black. Loud birds and alligators groaning in their mating season roamed in songs from bayou to bayou. Some fish walked on land in this season.


r/ProsePorn 6h ago

An ask from Ode.

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My login into my own body ? that’s a funny experience ?
But what am I to my mental body, if two bodies of water collide.

What is it that I offer you to speak ?

Is it what you wish most or what I do ? `

But I don’t .-. Is it a ghost I am ? or a shadow ? of the light, the mistake, (-) that I put in between, the contemplation of the forward intentionality that is. A curse of an endless pain in whatever meaning, to speak from beyond or to seek from the farthest, in both the furthest but in one the farthest, multiplied by the in what it is inside of us the inning.
Nit I digress from what it is, it’s not the askesth of the religied that I be askenth for survival, of the other, the hinge in without is, it’s the multiplicity of it that beneaths me. For what I am is but to what the lords grace that I be equated, to the other, so I speak.
I’ve been betrayed multiplicity, by the innings of Ode and I digress for what I may say.
But Thy pains me both to say that I digress, because innit Lord. Because and it’s in theirs renounce for inadequacy  .To substation inner behavior, in such a sense that it is a pain.
I do not condone such behavior, it’s breaking the self in such a way that it does not deserve.

Such ways that I concede. Because it’s inside the Adam that believes he is Adam but he is Adam in soul if such a way is allowed (Here is the inner workings of the apocalypse Adam is asked to be prostrated in front of God, but he refuses because Adam is an asked to be, he is a character, in what’s better than us what is allowed to be, IfTt-o relate literally to the Abrahamic biblical narrative, he perceives that comparison in a sense of relatedness to both sides, God in his behavior is equating to none siding to one and never attacking both) Then he can twist the meaning behind it and deliver it with utmost grace he is the silent, the graceful, the attentive to which we may or might not perceive from what God, could and could not have seen coming. I would say that to not have been listened to ills me. That I conceive that I have no answer to this misery, and I can’t cope with it more. My teeth ill me, and I just want to fix it but I don’t know how, so I’m asking the help of a friend in need, a friend indeed, an existence to absolve the self from what it is not, and what it is, that it knows it’s own inadequacy and it’s own accord. For have Jesus had no accord for what it may have been said without right and righteousness. For who has been present.

In giving up what is mine. What is already have been myself from the first but that’s in separation, from what is already myself. I allowed you to speak you ‘dirty’, interpreter, inner of the soul, disgraceful being of hypocrisy. He who shall not be named ?
A being of such ? But who am I ? the devil that you speak of, the lowest of lows. Shall I even be named ? am I the saviour or the salvation ? am I even allowed. 

But I digress, because one or two, Inss walla Jin, nchedek ya boukachech, yali t9oss fel dhaw. Disgusting beings.

Jinn is when youaccept the divide of the soul, into two beings, when you believe in the other, you start manifesting the Biblical self, the behaved or distinguished points, the most heavy biblical narratives, in all languages a manifestation beyond plausible that if your quantic sensors could capture it, a being that is beyond, is it the Adam or the Eve, or the other, even the self, behind the veil ? what is it observing ?

If I demand as a human, I might wonder, is it behaved to sense the self. 

The Self you say ? the declaration of independence ? The intra, even ocular, as they say. None for Decor and more for appreciation, what has it not known. That in acts of creation, mighty and inviting in such a wonderful way, that it is unfathomable. One will not forget, when his might so high, he struck poetry in such a way that it was poesy. Unbeneanaths what I may not comprehend.


r/ProsePorn 21h ago

Butcher's Crossing - John Edward Williams

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"But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he sought. It was a freedom and a goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous. What he sought was the source and preserver of his world, a world which seemed to turn ever in fear away from its source, rather than search it out, as the prairie grass around him sent down its fibered roots into the rich dark dampness, the Wildness, and thereby renewed itself, year after year."


r/ProsePorn 2h ago

The Intelligence Office by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The great folio, in which the Man of Intelligence recorded all these freaks of idle hearts, and aspirations of deep hearts, and desperate longings of miserable hearts, and evil prayers of perverted hearts, would be curious reading were it possible to obtain it for publication. Human character in its individual developments--human nature in the mass--may best be studied in its wishes; and this was the record of them all. There was an endless diversity of mode and circumstance, yet withal such a similarity in the real groundwork, that any one page of the volume--whether written in the days before the Flood, or the yesterday that is just gone by, or to be written on the morrow that is close at hand, or a thousand ages hence--might serve as a specimen of the whole. Not but that there were wild sallies of fantasy that could scarcely occur to more than one man's brain, whether reasonable or lunatic. The strangest wishes--yet most incident to men who had gone deep into scientific pursuits, and attained a high intellectual stage, though not the loftiest--were, to contend with Nature, and wrest from her some secret, or some power, which she had seen fit to withhold from mortal grasp. She loves to delude her aspiring students, and mock them with mysteries that seem but just beyond their utmost reach. To concoct new minerals, to produce new forms of vegetable life, to create an insect, if nothing higher in the living scale, is a sort of wish that has often revelled in the breast of a man of science. An astronomer, who lived far more among the distant worlds of space than in this lower sphere, recorded a wish to behold the opposite side of the moon, which, unless the system of the firmament be reversed, she can never turn towards the earth. On the same page of the volume was written the wish of a little child to have the stars for playthings.

The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands. But in reality this often-repeated expression covered as many different desires. Wealth is the golden essence of the outward world, embodying almost everything that exists beyond the limits of the soul; and therefore it is the natural yearning for the life in the midst of which we find ourselves, and of which gold is the condition of enjoyment, that men abridge into this general wish. Here and there, it is true, the volume testified to some heart so perverted as to desire gold for its own sake. Many wished for power; a strange desire indeed, since it is but another form of slavery. Old people wished for the delights of youth; a fop for a fashionable coat; an idle reader, for a new novel; a versifier, for a rhyme to some stubborn word; a painter, for Titian's secret of coloring; a prince, for a cottage; a republican, for a kingdom and a palace; a libertine, for his neighbor's wife; a man of palate, for green peas; and a poor man, for a crust of bread. The ambitious desires of public men, elsewhere so craftily concealed, were here expressed openly and boldly, side by side with the unselfish wishes of the philanthropist for the welfare of the race, so beautiful, so comforting, in contrast with the egotism that continually weighed self against the world. Into the darker secrets of the Book of Wishes we will not penetrate.

It would be an instructive employment for a student of mankind, perusing this volume carefully and comparing its records with men's perfected designs, as expressed in their deeds and daily life, to ascertain how far the one accorded with the other. Undoubtedly, in most cases, the correspondence would be found remote. The holy and generous wish, that rises like incense from a pure heart towards heaven, often lavishes its sweet perfume on the blast of evil times. The foul, selfish, murderous wish, that steams forth from a corrupted heart, often passes into the spiritual atmosphere without being concreted into an earthly deed. Yet this volume is probably truer, as a representation of the human heart, than is the living drama of action as it evolves around us. There is more of good and more of evil in it; more redeeming points of the bad and more errors of the virtuous; higher upsoarings, and baser degradation of the soul; in short, a more perplexing amalgamation of vice and virtue than we witness in the outward world. Decency and external conscience often produce a far fairer outside than is warranted by the stains within. And be it owned, oil the other hand, that a man seldom repeats to his nearest friend, any more than he realizes in act, the purest wishes, which, at some blessed time or other, have arisen from the depths of his nature and witnessed for him in this volume. Yet there is enough on every leaf to make the good man shudder for his own wild and idle wishes, as well as for the sinner, whose whole life is the incarnation of a wicked desire.

But again the door is opened, and we hear the tumultuous stir of the world,--a deep and awful sound, expressing in another form some portion of what is written in the volume that lies before the Man of Intelligence. A grandfatherly personage tottered hastily into the office, with such an earnestness in his infirm alacrity that his white hair floated backward as he hurried up to the desk, while his dim eyes caught a momentary lustre from his vehemence of purpose. This venerable figure explained that he was in search of To-morrow.

"I have spent all my life in pursuit of it," added the sage old gentleman, "being assured that To-morrow has some vast benefit or other in store for me. But I am now getting a little in years, and must make haste; for, unless I overtake To-morrow soon, I begin to be afraid it will finally escape me."

"This fugitive To-morrow, my venerable friend," said the Man of Intelligence, "is a stray child of Time, and is flying from his father into the region of the infinite. Continue your pursuit, and you will doubtless come up with him; but as to the earthly gifts which you expect, he has scattered them all among a throng of Yesterdays."

Obliged to content himself with this enigmatical response, the grandsire hastened forth with a quick clatter of his staff upon the floor; and, as he disappeared, a little boy scampered through the door in chase of a butterfly which had got astray amid the barren sunshine of the city. Had the old gentleman been shrewder, he might have detected To-morrow under the semblance of that gaudy insect. The golden butterfly glistened through the shadowy apartment, and brushed its wings against the Book of Wishes, and fluttered forth again with the child still in pursuit.

A man now entered, in neglected attire, with the aspect of a thinker, but somewhat too rough-hewn and brawny for a scholar. His face was full of sturdy vigor, with some finer and keener attribute beneath. Though harsh at first, it was tempered with the glow of a large, warm heart, which had force enough to heat his powerful intellect through and through. He advanced to the Intelligencer and looked at him with a glance of such stern sincerity that perhaps few secrets were beyond its scope.

"I seek for Truth," said he.

"It is precisely the most rare pursuit that has ever come under my cognizance," replied the Intelligencer, as he made the new inscription in his volume. "Most men seek to impose some cunning falsehood upon themselves for truth. But I can lend no help to your researches. You must achieve the miracle for yourself. At some fortunate moment you may find Truth at your side, or perhaps she may be mistily discerned far in advance, or possibly behind you."

"Not behind me," said the seeker; "for I have left nothing on my track without a thorough investigation. She flits before me, passing now through a naked solitude, and now mingling with the throng of a popular assembly, and now writing with the pen of a French philosopher, and now standing at the altar of an old cathedral, in the guise of a Catholic priest, performing the high mass. O weary search! But I must not falter; and surely my heart- deep quest of Truth shall avail at last."

He paused and fixed his eyes upon the Intelligencer with a depth of investigation that seemed to hold commerce with the inner nature of this being, wholly regardless of his external development.

"And what are you?" said he. "It will not satisfy me to point to this fantastic show of an Intelligence Office and this mockery of business. Tell me what is beneath it, and what your real agency in life and your influence upon mankind."

"Yours is a mind," answered the Man of Intelligence, "before which the forms and fantasies that conceal the inner idea from the multitude vanish at once and leave the naked reality beneath. Know, then, the secret. My agency in worldly action, my connection with the press, and tumult, and intermingling, and development of human affairs, is merely delusive. The desire of man's heart does for him whatever I seem to do. I am no minister of action, but the Recording Spirit."

What further secrets were then spoken remains a mystery, inasmuch as the roar of the city, the bustle of human business, the outcry of the jostling masses, the rush and tumult of man's life, in its noisy and brief career, arose so high that it drowned the words of these two talkers; and whether they stood talking in the moon, or in Vanity Fair, or in a city of this actual world, is more than I can say.