After-Orts #69

We are adrift, alone in the cosmos, wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.
     ― Woody Allen, Side Effects

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
     —Ernest Hemingway, the opening sentence of a 1936 short story, On The Blue Water 

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
     – E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

The purpose of democracy is to dignify and uplift each person on his or her path in life, to address misfortune as best we can, to make this life a gentler proposition.
     -- Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable, chapter 11
 

Dangerous jellyfish population is booming off Hawaii’s beaches.
1989-99 shipwrecks could be the reason:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article261981385.html