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Silence doesn’t make people peaceful. It just removes the places they usually hide. They spent an entire day without speaking. No jokes. No explanations. No casual “I’m fine.” Only spoons, breathing, desert wind, and the strange violence of hearing your own thoughts too clearly. Victor sat beside Lara on a rock at sunset. She handed him a note: “Do you hear how loud it is inside too?” He wrote back: “Yes. Should’ve brought earplugs for the soul.” Full chapter on Substack: substack.com/ @alexkorneliuk
You used to speak about ‘the one’ quite highly. When you know someone’s the one, you just know, you used to say. How did you not know? Because he became someone I did not know anymore.
Charles’s decision to lie [about the murder of two French diplomats by his agent] proved a logistical and a political disaster. Anxious to join the expeditionary force he had assembled to take Algiers, he interrupted his journey from Regensburg to make a solemn entry into Milan, where he and Vasto showed their mutual regard. The marquis had engaged Giulio Romano, one of the foremost architects of his day, to prepare triumphal arches (one of them crowned by a statue of Charles, mounted and dressed as a Roman emperor, trampling down a Moor, a Turk, and a Native American); and he accompanied his master everywhere until, flanked by two cardinals ‘and all the dukes, princes, and lords of his court, His Majesty went to the cathedral to carry the son of the marquis to his baptism’, becoming the child’s godfather. Shortly afterwards torrential rains and high winds destroyed most of the triumphal arches, which some saw as a harbinger of disaster. The emperor’s ten-day sojourn in Milan, whether or not intended to demonstrate his confidence […] doomed the coming campaign: many believed that if Charles had arrived in north Africa ten days earlier, he would have captured Algiers before the catastrophic storms decimated his fleet. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V , Geoffrey Parker
The first honest answer is usually not a plan. “I don’t know how to live differently,” Jack said. “I don’t know if I’ll fail. I don’t know if I’ll leave here and become the same coward two weeks from now.” He looked at the road outside. “But I don’t want to keep pretending this is all I am.” Full chapter on Substack. Alex Korneliuk | Substack
Modern adults are basically smartphones with cracked screens. Technically functional. Spiritually damaged The chairs were arranged in a circle, which meant emotional violence was about to begin. One by one strangers admitted they were lonely, exhausted, emotionally numb, or quietly falling apart. Victor said he came for the free food. Nobody believed him. Full chapter on Substack: substack.com/ @alexkorneliuk
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