shinycity: to be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
shinycity: it's entirely possible that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. if we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes.
shinycity: in absolute darkness we brooded on the origin and the destiny of the galaxies, and on the appalling contrast between the cosmos and our minute home-lives to which we longed to return.
shinycity: another day
shinycity: Here I am, at the Thirteenth Latitude of Desolation, the Hundredth Longitude of Shame, the utmost Altitude of teeth-gnashing Defiance, somewhere far out, at the point of the Ultimate, and still I wonder whether it is possible to go any farther...