Gold foil illustration of stars

Boats Against the Current

Holding on in the Rush of the Moment
a crowd of people in a subway

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle – On Heroes

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Fardle-Din

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Povism

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Typifice

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Scabulous

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On Tenderhooks

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Keep

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Flashover

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Aesthosis

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Treachery Of The Common

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