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Plastic Virgin Mary altar that belonged to my great grandmother/Leonard Cohen from his book ‘Beautiful Losers’

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a shrine of sorts to my family/ancestors

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haunted memories of mine:

a black butterfly weaving around gravestones in an old churchyard

an elderly woman in a small village walking down the street with a doll in her arms

being small and tentatively walking around a cathedral, like being in the stomach of a great whale, solemn hymn music playing and feeling thoroughly unnerved

a crashing sound from a tree, to find on the ground below a fallen collared dove with blood flowing from its chest

a completely browned burnt out car in the middle of a park on a bright sunny day, that in my mind had been pulled from the bottom of a river bed after many years

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I love girls who take pictures of dead animals they come across on their walks. a simple act of memorialising. a commemoration. a reverence for the small things

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I can’t stop thinking about how once in an interview amanda seyfried said she wanted mark ryden to paint her with blood trickling down her throat and holding a dead cat and then he did. she’s one of us

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There would be no masthead over the horizon. No sail. Just emptiness, loneliness, and grief. And then even that was taken from them.

Almost 150 years ago, when Jeremiah Collins decided to build our house, he chose this hill, the highest point in Collinsport.

And they were no longer permitted here. All of the wives and sweethearts of the sailors on Jeremiah's ships were turned away.

These developments were made possible by a profound and far-reaching cause: the enclosure of land and the removal of thousands of people from the commons, who were then redeployed to the country, town, and sea. Ex- propriation was the source of the original accumulation of capital, and the force that transformed land and labor into commodities. This is how some of the workers aboard the Sea-Venture had become ‘‘hands.’’

The design and construction of this house represented a marriage of the elegance of Europe and the vigor and enterprise of the New World.

European capitalists had to forcibly expropriate masses of them from their ancestral homelands so that their labor-power could be redeployed in new economic projects in new geographic settings. The dispossession and relocation of peoples have been a worldwide process spanning five hundred years. The Vir- ginia Company in general and the Sea-Venture in particular helped to or- ganize the middle passage between Old World expropriation and New World exploitation.

But in spite of all this, the total effort was an agony to man. Men were driven to their limits. What should have been an act and labor of love became a hateful thing.

Winstanley and the Diggers more broadly believed that the death penalty was logically related to the enclosure movement. Kingly power ‘‘hedges the weake out of the Earth, and either starves them, or else forces them through poverty to take from others, and then hangs them for so doing.’’ Given that the poor were forced to work beneath subsistence, ‘‘this Law that frights people and forces people to obey it by Prisons, Whips, and Gallows, is the very kingdom of the Devil, and Darknesse, which the Creation groans under at this day.

He is indentured to me for the remainder of his prison term. I allowed him to come here because he is strong, and able-bodied, and I needed able-bodied men to help clear the property.

- Why was he imprisoned? What was his crime? - He broke into a farmhouse and ransacked it. When he was caught, he claimed that he was returning from the war, and he was starving, and freezing.

The Seaman as Man of the World In verse: "They hand the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the Common; But let the greater criminal loose Who steals the Common from the goose."

Your trouble is, you've lived by their rules too long. And look at you. A convict, working out his time.

dark shadows 1795 but make it rediker's atlantic history from below

12 / The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, p16. / 214 / Hydra, 17 / 214 / Hydra, 118 / 372 / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Marcus Rediker, p17 / 374