quote/unquote: together/fall

“1. intr. To fall together, as the sides of a hollow body, or the body itself, by external pressure or withdrawal of the contents, as when an inflated bladder is pierced; to fall into a confused mass or into a flattened form by loss of rigidity or support; to break down, give way, fall in, cave in; to shrink suddenly into a smaller volume, contract.”

“It went up, and it came down...I thought I was gonna die.”

“After being kicked repeatedly in the head during a mugging in 1999, he was sometimes able to move his thumb in response to yes-or-no questions but do little else. He rarely opened his eyes. Yet tests showed that language circuits in the left side of his brain and running through his prefrontal cortex — the rational, conscious areas — were intact.”

“I am too functional, this is my problem. I am too easily susceptible to all of the easy traps, the little successes that lock you into patterns and habits. One day I look around suddenly and realize that I have been asleep for weeks, months. Over and over, I find that it is impossible to shake myself fully awake again. There are all of these new attachments, all these extra limbs that have sprouted in my sleep. They interfere with my movements, with the opening of my eyes, with the exercise of my tongue. I cannot shake them loose. I have dreamt them into place while sleeping. At the time, I thought it was a nice dream, but when I wake up and look at myself in the mirror, I realize what a nightmare I’ve locked myself into.”

“Failure, ‘break-down’ (of an institution, enterprise, established condition of things).”

“The rate of autism among the children of 29 women who lived near the fields was extremely high, suggesting that exposure to the insecticides in the womb might have played a role. The study is the first to report a link between pesticides and the neurological disorder, which affects one in every 150 children.”

“It kept collapsing...down, down, down until it got to me.”

“The problem is that you have little to nothing to contribute to the conversation. You are still too shell-shocked and disengaged. You are still dreaming another reality that has nothing to do with these worlds. You are limited to a repertoire of television ads and telenovela plots. You are lost in the nightmare that they designed for you, and you are looking to me/her/him/them to show you a way out.”

"out of laziness n fear, we cling 2 the cults theyve erected 4 us, we build new cults to suit r evolving needs, we draw 1 another, in2 mutual suicide pacts & call it: Love. We refuse 2 bleed."

“A steam pipe explodes near Grand Central Terminal, a levee fails and floods New Orleans, a bridge collapses in Minneapolis.”

“A bridge in America just shouldn’t fall down.”

“He has regained his personhood, his personal agency...The patient has amnesia and cannot yet fully represent his interests...but now he’s got interests to represent.”

“I am reminded of the way in which a crumbling infrastructure can signal movement in a creative direction if we can just look past all the current/future suffering, pain, disease, death, war, hunger, violence, chaos, emotional trauma. These are the signs of collapse—not imminent, but in progress. Child poverty, disease, illness, and infant mortality rates, too. These are not leading indicators of what’s coming if we don’t act quickly, they are evidence that the rug has already been pulled out a long time ago and we’ve been left for dead. Changes in weather patterns, sea levels, water shortages, melting ice caps. It’s already a done deal. It’s a long, slow collapse already in progress.”

“It’s not me that you want, it’s my ability to magically attract and prop up all of your fears, jealousies, insecurities, memories of childhood traumas. It’s my perfect resemblance to a stage set, a façade, a contractual arrangement of coherence.”

“Brain injuries from blows to the head often sever nerve connections widely throughout the brain but can leave some circuits intact.”

“...a joint accumulation of one another’s nightmares, rolling on into a fantasy/future picking up speed/picking up more and more bits and pieces of death - lies - suffering - pain - illness - illusion - time transformed into space transformed into—”

“It's important to remember that no survey can predict personality type with 100 percent accuracy. Experts say that we should use personality type to better understand ourselves and others, but shouldn't feel restricted by our results.”

“To break down, come to nothing, fail; to lose force suddenly.”

“>In the end we are the ones who break our own hearts. Control/collapse is a dual sponsorship, a self-inflicted affliction that >expands beyond the limits of sight but always within the parameters of the technical languages >at whose altars we have come to worship. I believe that we are sincere in our desire to be: free/healthy/happy >BUT, I cannot believe that this is the extent of our ability to love/be/etc. To do so would require a >blind faith in television, pornographic imagery, terrorism, barbed wire, black sites/extraordinary rendition, >coherence, the future/past, capitalism, communism, fantasy, illusion: That you will >never change; that I will never change; that we are not change—”

“>>boredom? lack of imagination? lack of awareness/information/engagement? lack of compassion? empathy? lack? either/or? lack/nolack? dry? dusty?”

“A break-down of mental energy; a sudden loss of courage, spirits, etc.”

“>>> Maybe: we can sweat into one another’s mouths. Maybe we.
>>> Maybe bleed into one. Another’s.
>>> Lungs: you are afraid to breathe, you are afraid to let go.
>>>> You are afraid to admit that you cannot own/possess/control my:”

"I thought I was dead...I honestly did. I thought it was over."

“Your love for xyz
Is nothing
But a series of zeroes
& ones
Blinking.
A binary code, a Boolean string—
What is it that you really need?

The world belongs to the
Dysfunctional
The crooked lack
Of structural
Integrity.
The manic.
The schizophrenic.
The therapeutically unresponsive
Hopeless
Wreck.

Scab is another
Four-letter word.
Tear them off.
Bleed.
It’s the only way you’ll ever see.”


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Minneapolis bridge collapses, killing at least 4

Pain starts to spread as state shuts its wallet

Man Regains Speech After Brain Stimulation

Pesticide link to autism suspected

Engineers See Dangers in Aging Infrastructure

Oxford English Dictionary: "Collapse"