Howl / Fossil Waters

Reality as refuge. You take shelter in reality to stop people hassling you on Twitter.

As I was falling asleep, the thought came to mind: ‘I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by Facebook.’

…a news item about the fact that one tenth of the earth’s surface has been constantly on fire, through no fault of human beings, for more than two hundred years. A look at a dynamic map of all the fires currently raging on the planet would reveal a multitude of these expanding red zones… I found it startling to consider that our human modernity had developed side by side with this incandescent presence.

…Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, the second largest and second deepest lake on the planet. ‘So deep,’ he said, ‘that there’s no oxygen in the waters at the very bottom. They’re fossil waters.’

Various pieces of THE THINGS WE’VE SEEN, Agustín Fernández Mallo (UK) (US)