Czeslaw Milosz, New And Collected Poems: 1931-2001

Evening tide, Iceland - by Tim Rudman (1942), English

Detail - Flowering Almond in a Glass by Vincent Van Gogh

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Utsushimi ‘うつしみ’ (2000) - Dir. Sion Sono

Bacteria do have souls, but binary fission doesn’t produce new souls 99% of the time, so most single celled organisms share these sprawling souls that just get bigger every time they divide. Over time they compact down into these big mats of soul get compacted into geological layers that gradually accrete to the world soul. Sexual reproduction creates new souls but they’re much shorter lived as a result, and rarely make it into the bedrock, so most of the world spirit is from the Proterozoic.

— Silas Melvin

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible