I think nuclear war might be less painful.

"So when Coon, also known for playing social climber Bertha Russell on The Gilded Age, mentioned in a recent TikTok video that she swears by lanolin-based Lansinoh Lanolin Nipple Cream as a lip balm—and that she has “converted a lot of people to nipple cream for their lips”—we knew we had to try it"
#marketing #consumerism #materialism #collapse #HollowMen #fools
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/nipple-cream-for-lips

The #HollowMen by #TSEliot

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled w/straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet & meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape w/o form, shade w/o colour,
Paralysed force, gesture w/o motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

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#Quotes #HollowMen #TSElliot

The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)

A clip of Joe Don Baker kicking the crap out of Andy Robinson in Charley Varrick (1973).

Fun fact! Baker's character Jedburgh from #EdgeOfDarkness (1985) inspired the character of the same name in my #StarTrekDS9 novel #HollowMen.

Jedburgh interrogates #Garak while Garak is visiting Earth with #Sisko, in the wake of the events of #InThePaleMoonlight. He does not kick the crap out of Garak, however. Someone else does that, because someone always does.

https://youtu.be/hfpBe4gnARk