blood

coin

Copper

habit

Iron

memory

morning

panic

shame

silence

water

Things That Taste Like Metal

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is the worst of all testimonies to the truth.

Maryland Blood is the worst of all testimonies to the truth.

is cellular milk which our organs nurse from our veins like infants at the breast.

Our organs nurse at our veins like infants at the breast. Blood is cellular milk. In fact, child, adult, or aged, whether we suck, chew, or gulp our mixture, our entire life on earth is a physiological sucking at the bottle of ourselves. Organically we are our own mother-and-child; and in the infinity of things, in Absolute Allness, we suckle God.

Copper, the gold of the poor, — lead, the silver of the needy.

is the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life.

is that into which uncertainty disappears.

is the second nature which destroys the first.

the second nature which destroys the first.

is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. (Samuel Beckett)