"There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!"
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cr0tch:

PLEASE READ I’M BEGGING YOU GUYS TO HELP ME.

STOP SCROLLING :’(

 

This is my best friend, Billy.  I’ve known him basically since I was born.  Our parents were friends, and it was always the joke between our families that we were going to get married, since my parents happened to have a girl and his a guy, at the same time.  He means a lot to me, even though he lives thousands of miles away from me right now.  The important thing though, is that he’s gone missing.  He is a danger to himself, suffering from depression and extensive drug use in the past year.  He was going through rehabilitation, but now he’s missing.  He’s disappeared.  The last he was seen was in Juno Beach, Florida.  This is off of northern Palm Beach County.  He’s been missing since Sunday afternoon, over forty hours.  The U.S. Coast Guard searched for him throughout Monday night, and they’re unsure that the search will continue any longer.  He was last seen wearing a pair of green shorts.  It’s uncertain whether he has gone missing deliberately, or the coast was too rough.  This is one hundred percent serious and I’m terrified.  If anybody in or near Palm Beach County has seen or heard from him, please please please contact his mother at (321) 750-3469.  This is so serious, and only serious calls are wanted.  Please help find my best friend.  I’m lost without him.

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