February 2010
20 posts
January 2010
13 posts
What I'd Only Sensed Before
…for a long time [I] had known clearly what I’d only sensed before: that irony wasn’t enough, and never would be, that it was only an opiate for a few privileged ones…”
—Heinrich Böll, Billiards at Half-past Nine
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Equal Eye
“And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, dew along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but...
Neutral Milk Hotel — “My Dream Girl...
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The Meaningless Blue Sky
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.
— Fernando Pessoa
lazenby:
“When I was sixteen, my brother Henri died, at which point my father gave out a great howl of ‘He’s dead! He’s dead!’
I was aware of my own bifurcated response to this scene.
My first Me was in tears, but my second Me was thinking: ‘What a terrific cry! It would really be good in the theatre!’.
From that moment on, I was homo duplex, homo duplex.
I’ve often thought about this...
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Strangely Torn
To begin briefly with the ecclesiastical aspect of things, as long as one believed in religion, one could defenestrate a good Christian or a pious Jew from any story in the castle of hope and prosperity, and he would always land on his spiritual feet, as it were, because all religions included in their view of life an irrational, incalculable element they called God’s inscrutable will. Whenever a...
