Alaska: “Alaska was, and is, the Last Frontier. The entire territory is one giant snow globe, something to shake up and peer into, oohing and aahing at its beauty, before retiring to the humdrum of everyday life. In many ways it’s a blessing that the settlement effort stopped – the land’s natural bounty remained unsullied. But it’s also true that the American civilizational effort in Alaska represented the last of a great conquering and expansionist people. The spirit of that last generation came to a head ‘in a long, fine flash,’ leaving us with no clearer understanding of precisely why.”
Antilibrary Vibes: “With shamanoid sophistication, one can absorb a book’s vibe through mere touch. Metaphysically code-switching to a materialist, this claim is bullshit. But nobody cares what materialists think anymore.”
The Original Bronze Age Perverts: “Understanding the supernatural helps us understand our destiny and purpose, which is certainly not to serve gods of this world and fall into unbelief through trusting in the world’s systems. It’s about faith. That’s what saves us: our allegiance. If we say we believe but don’t act, do we truly believe?”
The Red Hand Files: “God is an unnamable and incomprehensible abstraction, and we wrestle with the inadequacies of our language to give this abstraction form. Mary, on the other hand, is as real and as excruciatingly affecting as any concept can be, which is why in many ways she reigns supreme within the Western religious imagination. God is a He because the Bible tells us so, but the gospels themselves flow with a subterranean and incandescent female energy, a spirit of love and suffering and yearning, relatable and almost unbearably true, upon which we rehearse our own sorrows.”