We Must Probe It From the Outset (Part 2 of 5)

The following is a series of attached photos sent from Liza to the group. As usual, we publish typed excerpts of these illuminated texts along with the original photo. The best way is to read the text, of course, is to to experience it in its illuminated form.

A. On Immutable Economics

Free food? Don't believe the lies! And certainly do not drink the cafeteria's Kool-Aid. Hasn't anyone ever told you: There ain't no free lunch?

Though my struggles are not as Will said, "more impressive than [any of] yours," one of my senior students from last year went missing in July. Three weeks ago, one of his brothers found his body, desecrated by bullet wounds, underneath a manhole cover. Please keep the O'Sean and Lockett Family in your daily prayers. Mortality over distraction from death's inevitability; the reality that does not separate us from "the horrors of immediacy" but rather immerses us in them; the reality that uproots us from the Apple® orchard and plants us back into the garden. It is this reality that places us not behind a screen, but before (what Walter Benjamin coined as) "the hierarchical pinnacle of aesthetic experience."