The sample quotation is from Caroline Walker Bynum.
no responsesimpassible \im-PASS-uh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.Body is flux and frustration, a locus of pain and process. If it becomes impassible and incorruptible, how is it still body?
The night died, and with it the glow of the electric lights died too. Darkness ruled the big compound. The dismal cry the electric lamps uttered as they expired still quivered in the air. Although the sound was low, it penetrated everywhere; even the corners of the rooms seemed to echo with soft weeping. The time for happiness had passed. Now was the hour of tragic tears.
Lying in their beds, stripped of the masks they had worn all day, people took stock of themselves. They opened their hearts and examined their innermost secrets, peering into the recesses of their souls. Stricken with remorse and anger, they wept over the waste, the losses, the bitterness of the day gone by. Of course there were a few pleased individuals among them, but these were already wrapped in satisfied slumber. The rest were disappointed, miserable creatures in unwarm beds, tearfully bemoaning their fate.
Whether in the brightness of day or the darkness of night, the world always has these two different aspects for these two different kinds of people.
(from Family by Ba Jin [Pa Chin])
no responseson a fire alarm in my dorm:
joe: huzzah for evacuations!
caroline: if this was popcorn-related i’m going to flay someone
joe: as opposed to what? incense related?
joe: it’s gonna be trite either way
joe: “I left my crack pipe perilously burning on the edge of the table”