cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“I tread amidst a wasteland that has gone inefficacious in decades. I trample on thoughts proliferated around it, like a Palisade so high and filled with saddest echoes. I am a million candles that have flicked momentarily and burnt out like a gnossienne abandoned by all forms of salubrity.”
