Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Feb 13, 2026 08:14 PM

"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."---Jean Baudrillard

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 13, 2026 10:44 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”–Guy Debord

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 15, 2026 06:29 PM by Magical Realist.)

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 15, 2026 07:31 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers.”― Salman Rushdie

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 16, 2026 09:25 PM by Magical Realist.)

“To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography. That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost”.---Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 17, 2026 07:12 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know.”
–Simone Weil

**Magical Realist** · Feb 20, 2026 08:56 PM

“I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”― Banksy

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 21, 2026 08:46 PM by Magical Realist.)

“It is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.”
–Neil Postman

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 24, 2026 10:00 PM by Magical Realist.)

“What you do with your attention is in the end what you do with your life.”― John Green

**confused2** · Feb 25, 2026 02:43 AM

"Where the foot of a Russian soldier steps, that's ours,"
"Russia's borders do not end anywhere."
--Vladimir Putin