@NotBryanRay (long) Quote of the Day:

"(...) What are they, exactly: these religious arguments? They’re like a group of people who really enjoy one poem — say, a poem by Emily Dickinson — and they’re so adamant in their admiration of that Dickinson poem that they hold any ...
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(...) other poem to be an affront to true life; so, when any other person claims to be moved by any other poem — say, a poem by Emily Brontë — the lovers of the one Emily must murder the lovers of the other Emily.

I like the idea of people (...)
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(...) murdering people over poetry. But I think that it would improve matters if we changed the act of murder into the act of writing extremely passionate essays full of hatred against one another. I’d LOVE to read those essays. We could collect them together and bind them(...)
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(...) together and bind them in a volume called Hit Pieces, and give it the subtitle: Emily vs. Emily.

Yeah but instead we have this stupid world where people kill each other for no good reason, and they don’t write any hot essays. Not even lukewarm essays, except (...)
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(...) against politicians.

The thing I hate about politics is that it’s both boring AND ineffective. Poetry might be ineffective, but at least it’s exuberant. (...)"
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Full @NotBryanRay Diary Entry: https://tershyrad.blogspot.com/2020/03/morningthots-written-more-than-48-hours.html