Hyphaeinography

Welcome to my little jar of quote colonies that live in this ecosystem.

“I play the kind of punk rock music that has existed since the time of the great painters in the caves at Lascaux.” - John Darnielle

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes — everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!” - Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

“But it also speaks to the nature of these books, which is that weird fiction is, at its heart, providing a fourth way of interpreting the world, by allowing fiction — rather than religion, philosophy or science — to try to interpret the unknowable.” - Jeff VanderMeer

“Once the mycelial thought is learned, it is impossible for it to not influence all of one’s activities. Connections form easily and yet stay malleable enough to be revised as new information emerges. As the actions of this adaptive thinking process go on to affect the world, they are built upon by others, creating a feedback loop throughout a community. If sustained, these loops have the potential to build other systems, each with their own feedback loops, leading to an exponential increase in complexity and resilience in the meta-system. As these systems stack, integrate, and synchronize, they refine the meta-system’s ability to learn from, create, design, evolve, and self-organize itself into the most appropriate emergent model that the meta-system’s environment requires. In the theory of self-organized criticality, the mechanisms that lead to minor events are the same that lead to major ones. Thus, a forest never reaches a state of equilibrium, but constantly advances from one state to the next. So too can a group of humans that initially organizes around a single issue create a whole culture that is informed, competent, and clear about its values, leading toward focused designs for regeneration in the meta-culture.” - Peter McCoy, Radical Mycology

“What artists do is make a particularly skillful selection of fragments of cosmos, unusually useful and entertaining bits chosen and arranged to give an illusion of coherence and duration amidst the uncontrollable streaming of events. An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen to or watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity. And yet all it is is an explorer’s sketch-map. A chart of shorelines on a foggy coast.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, ~World-Making

“Most Kesh poetry was occasional—the highest form, according to Goethe—and much of it was made by what we call amateurs, people doing poetry as a common skill, the way people do sewing or cooking, as an ordinary and essential part of being alive. The quality of such poetry, sewing, and cooking of course varies enormously. We have been taught that only poetry of extremely high quality is poetry at all; that poetry is a big deal, and you have to be a pro to write it, or, in fact, to read it. This is what keeps a few poets and many, many English departments alive. That’s fine, but I was after something else: the poem not as fancy pastry but as bread; the poem not as masterpiece but as life-work.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, ~ Text, Silence, Performance

“Copernicus told us that the earth was not the center. Darwin told us that man is not the center. If we listened to the anthropologists we might hear them telling us, with appropriate indirectness, that the West is not the center. The center of the world is a bluff on the Klamath River, a rock in Mecca, a hole in the ground in Greece, nowhere, its circumference everywhere.” - Ursula Le Guin, A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to be