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Salazar, 23, Purgatory. INFP. Vegan.

Enclosed are the journals, sufferances, and myriad artistic influences of an androgyne writer-musician, struggling to make sense of the world and their place in it a night at a time.

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   On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. If this image offends some of my follower’s sensibilities, then I apologize, but I must say that it’s an utterly captivating, even startling one, and for many reasons. This is only a few frames, but notice the crowd in the background; how some carry on, business as usual, perhaps ignoring the god-awful stench of burning flesh I’ve only read/heard about it in historical accounts. How some gaze on in… what? Wonder? Abject terror? Will this moment be forever seared into their memory, long after the charred concrete below is pristine once more? On an infinitely smaller scale, I can barely endure the updates to the self-inflicted A brand on my left wrist. I grimace, I wince, and my hands tremble. But there is purpose in the act, and a meaningful one. To devote oneself to a cause so fully… To say that, “I’d rather burn, than live under your oppressive rule,” and then go through with it, giving nothing away but a fist raised in the final act of defiance. Wow.

   On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.

If this image offends some of my follower’s sensibilities, then I apologize, but I must say that it’s an utterly captivating, even startling one, and for many reasons.

This is only a few frames, but notice the crowd in the background; how some carry on, business as usual, perhaps ignoring the god-awful stench of burning flesh I’ve only read/heard about it in historical accounts. How some gaze on in… what? Wonder? Abject terror? Will this moment be forever seared into their memory, long after the charred concrete below is pristine once more?

On an infinitely smaller scale, I can barely endure the updates to the self-inflicted A brand on my left wrist. I grimace, I wince, and my hands tremble. But there is purpose in the act, and a meaningful one.

To devote oneself to a cause so fully… To say that, “I’d rather burn, than live under your oppressive rule,” and then go through with it, giving nothing away but a fist raised in the final act of defiance.

Wow.

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