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An Active Placebo

12/29/2021 "You always get sick before we go on vacation"

Con/Jur/d
Dec 29, 2021
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A clue to finding a child of Omolu is their response to the infamous Pink Floyd lines “When I was a child I had a fever / I caught a fleeting glimpse /my hands felt like two balloons”
All day — felt like I never fully woke up — took a nap — something I rarely do — and kept falling back asleep — falling weightless — back into the ageless — gravityless — spaceless — space
Something about the play of light — A physicist asked “Why does it reduce to light?” — we were deeply — truly — stoned and comfortably numb — so the answer came as an active placebo
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Psychosomatic

Sickness is psychosomatic
So is wellness
An active placebo for any dis-ease

Well, a very deep subject, y’all. Please apply your placebos generously in sickness and in health.

Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 12/29/2021

Another gorgeous essay from Erik Davis:

Burning Shore
Another Paper Airplane
Back in the early ‘90s, when I was working full-time as a freelancer, a simple allegory of the writing life came to me that has never quit: writing feels like painstakingly preparing a single, extraordinarily challenging page—an illuminated manuscript or a space station blueprint or a breakup letter in ancient Sumerian—then folding up said page into a …
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