{"id":8394,"date":"2025-04-08T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:39:19","slug":"pity-this-busy-monster-manunkind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/pity-this-busy-monster-manunkind\/","title":{"rendered":"pity this busy monster, manunkind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><br>pity this busy monster, manunkind,<br><br>not. Progress is a comfortable disease:<br>your victim (death and life safely beyond)<br><br>plays with the bigness of his littleness<br>--- electrons deify one razorblade<br>into a mountainrange; lenses extend<br>unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish<br>returns on its unself.<br>                          A world of made<br>is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh<br><br>and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this<br>fine specimen of hypermagical<br><br>ultraomnipotence. We doctors know<br><br>a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell<br>of a good universe next door; let's go<br><br>E. E. Cummings<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond)plays with the bigness of his littleness&#8212; electrons deify one razorbladeinto a mountainrange; lenses extendunwish through curving wherewhen till unwishreturns on its unself. A world of madeis not a world of born &#8212; pity poor fleshand trees, poor stars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-poetry","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>pity this busy monster, manunkind - Blackmoor Vituperative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/pity-this-busy-monster-manunkind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"pity this busy monster, manunkind - Blackmoor Vituperative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. 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