Posts in inspiration library
ocean vuong interview & language as body

I’m starting a habit of compiling my highlighted notes for everything I absorb — to slowly grow my inspiration library.

I listened to this on being interview with ocean vuong yesterday — and I loved the way he talked about language as its own spoken body — moving and breathing in space — and of course, the body as its own language.

to see language as its own body is to say:

(1) language is a living thing. language breathes. language dies. language lives in movement, in air, in change — across time and space. the air itself is a vessel for language, especially when it is spoken.

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elon musk & future excitement

I realized today that Elon Musk is the kind of crazy that I’d like my mind to be around — (and thank you internet, for making this possible). I watched this video today (from 2017) and I’m struck and inspired by his vision of reality — which others would call far-fetched and crazy — in which underground superhighways, autonomous car-sharing economy, trucks that drive like sportscars, and space travel to Mars — is very much a real, tangible thing. he dreams up of a reality in his head, and chases it.

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