Essays and Fictions
GUY IN HOODIE WALKS INTO CAFE YELLING HIS MANIFESTO AS HE READS OFF HIS LAPTOP. Yikes. Was this really about to happen? In which direction should I dive? Within 10 seconds the staff cuts him off, and it seems like they’ve dealt with him before. At some point I hear, “I’d never hurt anyone, I just gotta say this.” Part of me wants to never go back t
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Slime Mold Time Mold • Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
taking drugs was one of many channels for individual well-being, a way of freeing oneself from taboos, a cultivated form of release.
Elena Ferrante • The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four
Coffee and antidepressants are good drugs, or moral drugs, because they don’t prevent us from doing our jobs. But opiates and alcohol are morally questionable—they change reality too much.