H2S04

For so long, I have wanted to take a very large hammer and violently break apart the things which impede me, but I never found it, or if I did, couldn't wield it. But there is a certain satisfaction to watching something dissolve, in seeing it get eaten away; acids and solvents have always been visually compelling to me, but of course, I realize now it is, and probably always has been, a potent and symbolic metaphor. This many years with my brain, and I still get surprised at the level to which metaphor is deeply encoded (though not in a bad way).