Only Fans – Full Design
This week, the Nass ponders anxiety, cuts rocks, and gets really into chess.
On the Shore of the Amygdala
“It’s not the calm before the storm, but the cohabitation of serenity and calamity. It captures the future’s grasp on the present; anxiety is in the very air.”
Vines, Pt. 1
“Is it too late to go around asking strangers for tylenol?”
Zaide’s Office, Embodied
“I wondered what kind of philosopher he might have been, having known him only after his thinking and memory had become impaired.”
First, Nothing
“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”
How a Rock Is Cut
“So long as nothing blocks your persistence, / you arrive one day at solution caves and gaping gullies.”
Lights, Camera…Checkmate
A Nass writer considers Netflix’s miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.