Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. Legend and mythology are both subject to modern terminology and continual updating. The Iliad was music. The Iliad was a song. The Iliad was voice. The Iliad was history and a lot of it was simply created so Homer could go home. It was Greek but it was embraced by everyone. All cultures. It was not too hopeful about relationships. God was violent and the people were afraid. The soldiers of Sparta slept with boys. If you need more masculinity than that, you are running a fool’s errand. Legends were a fool’s errand. We set all of this in concrete. In the year 5790, men will be women and women will be women. 5795 will see vats feeding fetuses and fetuses are prohibited from reading banned books. Throw those literate fetuses in prison. It’s all an illusion. America illusions go back to George Washington, and the fact that all stories were political. Every book I have ever written has been banned. All nine novels.

I cannot fight these fights (I can try) by myself. Equality is another illusion based in what we want to believe which is usually nothing. We do not know how to believe anything. Set your doubts on a sailboat and push the wind to me. Believe this. Believe that. I wonder what dating will look like during the coming civil war which is already here. Women should run the next civil war, then let’s be done with it. Yet we are constantly being told to have more children. Who can celebrate Civil War #999,999,999.042 Miss Scarlet tripped on the stairs. Daters beware. The future is not what you think will unfold. Marriage will be hopefully forbidden. Religion, a relic.