"The Fall of Ershey"

Liana 2022-04-21 09:02:22

During the whole of a dull, dark soundless day In the autumn of that year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in heaven I had been passing alone on the horse's back Through the Singularly, dreary tract in the country and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on Finally, as night fell, Within the view of melancholy House of Usher I know not how it was But with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit but just a glimpse, some unbearable gloom pervaded my mind I looked upon the scene before me the simple landscape features of the domain Upon the bleak walls, upon the white trunks of decayed trees With the utter depression souls There was an iciness A sinking.sinking A sickening of the heart

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  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?