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The Quantum bones of St Rosalia, floating in the artists shit

The Blindboy Podcast

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Helium Balloon Floats Away

When your helium balloon floats away, you reach a point where you experience what's known as megalaphobia. It's that uneasy feeling you get when you look up at a very tall building. And the anxiety is, i am tiny, i am insignificant, and i can be crushed. A toddler is confronted with the certainty of their own mortality when their first helium balloon float away. Your parents are powerless, because there's something more powerful at play, and that force is the suffering of e ance. Everything beautiful dies, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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