"It’s an amazing ride—the first dark rollercoaster ever made, a plunge through infinite space spangled with uncountable stars. When you’re in it, it’s a vast, cosmic experience. But when you get out, if you turn around, you don’t see infinite space. You just see a big chunky building with a popcorn stand next to it. And you’re like, that’s it? That’s what that was? It seemed so real from the inside, it was so absorbing. But it was just a place. And now I can leave."
— Sasha Chapin, Stranded on the Space Mountains of Self-Loathing
noun — the sole lifeline in one's excursion into terra incognita, by the retracing of which one might theoretically return.
"What I am entering is a topography that won't lodge in memory. All that connects me to the world I've left is an extremely thin strand of attention, an Ariadne's thread of remembrance. A spectral filament linking me to a glimmer of basic sanity." — Darkness Shining Wild, Robert Augustus Masters, PhD
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clarifyingcard commented on the word Space Mountain retrospective
"It’s an amazing ride—the first dark rollercoaster ever made, a plunge through infinite space spangled with uncountable stars. When you’re in it, it’s a vast, cosmic experience. But when you get out, if you turn around, you don’t see infinite space. You just see a big chunky building with a popcorn stand next to it. And you’re like, that’s it? That’s what that was? It seemed so real from the inside, it was so absorbing. But it was just a place. And now I can leave."
— Sasha Chapin, Stranded on the Space Mountains of Self-Loathing
February 20, 2024
clarifyingcard commented on the word mellivory
noun - the condition of being mellivorous; that is, feeding upon honey.
January 30, 2024
clarifyingcard commented on the word Ariadne's thread
noun — the sole lifeline in one's excursion into terra incognita, by the retracing of which one might theoretically return.
"What I am entering is a topography that won't lodge in memory. All that connects me to the world I've left is an extremely thin strand of attention, an Ariadne's thread of remembrance. A spectral filament linking me to a glimmer of basic sanity." — Darkness Shining Wild, Robert Augustus Masters, PhD
January 30, 2024