This is one of the first HW posts I read, and it's still my favorite. The way you talked about Casciano is heartbreaking. The idea that somebody can be low enough to be considering suicide but still fighting hard enough to try and get help is painful enough, but the line "ah shit I don’t want this anymore I change my mind I retract my previous position vis a vis suffering which is maybe what he thought going into the beginning of the night when he wanted to die and then didn’t anymore" is just searing. I have this theory that the best endeavor for any creative project is to tell the truth about something that hasn't been articulated before, and that's hard to do because there's been so much creativity over the past few thousand years, but I think that line pulled it off.
This is one of the first HW posts I read, and it's still my favorite. The way you talked about Casciano is heartbreaking. The idea that somebody can be low enough to be considering suicide but still fighting hard enough to try and get help is painful enough, but the line "ah shit I don’t want this anymore I change my mind I retract my previous position vis a vis suffering which is maybe what he thought going into the beginning of the night when he wanted to die and then didn’t anymore" is just searing. I have this theory that the best endeavor for any creative project is to tell the truth about something that hasn't been articulated before, and that's hard to do because there's been so much creativity over the past few thousand years, but I think that line pulled it off.
the fact that four months of hell world costs less than one mayo-stuft lobsterhand is perhaps earth's grandest bargain