December 2011
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin
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Hemingway: Have you ever made love to a truly great woman?
Gil: Actually my fiancee is a pretty sexy.
Hemingway: And when you make love to her you feel true and beautiful passion and for at least that moment lose your fear of death?
Gil: No, that, that doesn't happen.
Hemingway: I believe love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know, or Belmonte who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds until it returns as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.
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“The things you do badly are as much part of your style as the things you do...”
– Martin Scorsese
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November 2011
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XI-XX
22. 22…
This birthday passes seemingly without mention save for the friends in distant cities — most of which I’ve hardly spoken to over these three years of self-imposed isolation — who seem to remember it. Some ties remain, long intact, their knots strengthened by the strain of time and state-line, but with most a keen sense of indifference pervades my thoughts on the rare occasions that I...
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“The boundaries of the world are forever changing — from day to night, joy to...”
– Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night (2006 novel)
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Rev 22:20 | Puscifer
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Sooo...
I’m officially 22 as of this minute.
It’s also worth mentioning that my thunder-stealing nephew is celebrating his 1st birthday today alongside me.
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no...”
– Robert Lee Frost
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Relics to Ruins | Funeral Party – The Golden Age...
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“I use ‘truth’ as a shorthand for the property of a human institution to...”
– Norman Schofield, Professor at Department of Political Science, Washington University of St. Louis, Rational choice and political economy (1995), cited in Jeffrey Friedman, The Rational Choice Controversy, New Haven & London, Yale University Press. (tnx whyshouldeye)
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XI-XIII
This house is quiet, its silence in stark contrast to the seemingly endless wealth of thoughts and feelings flowing within, now tranquil as an undisturbed lake, now tumultuous as the sea, each and every one demanding pause, careful consideration, and above all else, an audience.
This house is quiet against the beckoning signs of the winter soon to come. Its chill bites, sending aching pains...
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"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Soundtrack... →
mouth-taped-shut:
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“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mas(k)culine Upkeep
As time continues to move forward, I’m slowly coming to terms with a great many things. One could even say that the extremes themselves number beyond what I’ve previously considered, but for lack of a better word, I am relieved.
Not so long ago, Ambivalence ruled and ruined me to the core; daily were the struggles and it seemed that there would be no end to the inherent suffering. That’s not to...
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“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
– Oscar Wilde
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