Jan Mieszkowski
Kafka's famous short story about a family's shame upon learning that their son paid $44 billion for Twitter.
Unless, of course, he's just making that up.
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday and devastated that Twitter is still functional." Theodor W. Adorno
Unless, of course, he's just making that up.
"This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe named Elon Musk who keeps piling up wrecked tweets and hurling them at his feet." Walter Benjamin
Unless, of course, he's just making that up.
Nietzsche: I want to say in 10 sentences what other people say in a book
Wittgenstein: What's a sentence?
Beckett: What are other people?
Kafka: What's a book?
Postmodernism let's call it.
"But he who is wisest among you, he also is only a discord and hybrid of plant and of ghost." Friedrich Nietzsche
The other Friedrich Nietzsche.
"There is no such thing as 'saying what you think.'" Walter Benjamin
Let alone posting it here.
Quote of the day
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Virginia Woolf from The Waves
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
Can you say that? Would you believe that I once did?
Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.
With any luck, he thought, no one will pursue him.
Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
Me too. Well, sans the sobs.
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
Naturally, let's say.
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
I won't go there with you if you won't go there with me.
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.
See, I told you.
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
Can you say that? Would you believe that I once did?
Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.
With any luck, he thought, no one will pursue him.
Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
Me too. Well, sans the sobs.
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
Naturally, let's say.
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
I won't go there with you if you won't go there with me.
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.
See, I told you.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
The Onion
Man Keeps Having Same Experience Where He Shows Up To Work Naked
I'll tell you my experience if you'll tell me yours.
Woman Pieces Together Timeline Of Boyfriend’s Past Relationships Like Detective Tracking Zodiac Killer
Or Ted Bundy of course.
U.S. Mint Introduces New Seven-Cent Coin To Bolster Citizens’ Math Skills
Nope, none around here yet.
'Bring Me Some Holiday Cheer, You Son Of A Bitch' Says Woman Slamming Christmas Tree Up Against Wall
A real tree too.
Grandmother Claims She Was Quite The Cum Dumpster Back In The Day
Cue Xhamster?
Leaked Documents Confirm ExxonMobil Has Known Exactly Which Day Earth Ends Since The 1970s
All we know now however is it's a Sunday.
Man Keeps Having Same Experience Where He Shows Up To Work Naked
I'll tell you my experience if you'll tell me yours.
Woman Pieces Together Timeline Of Boyfriend’s Past Relationships Like Detective Tracking Zodiac Killer
Or Ted Bundy of course.
U.S. Mint Introduces New Seven-Cent Coin To Bolster Citizens’ Math Skills
Nope, none around here yet.
'Bring Me Some Holiday Cheer, You Son Of A Bitch' Says Woman Slamming Christmas Tree Up Against Wall
A real tree too.
Grandmother Claims She Was Quite The Cum Dumpster Back In The Day
Cue Xhamster?
Leaked Documents Confirm ExxonMobil Has Known Exactly Which Day Earth Ends Since The 1970s
All we know now however is it's a Sunday.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Sean Carroll
Quantum Mechanics doesn't deserve the connotation of spookiness in the sense of some ineffable mystery that it is beyond the human mind to comprehend. Quantum Mechanics is amazing; it is novel, profound, mind-stretching & a very different view of reality from what we’re used to.
Spooky, in others words.
Our goal over the next few chapters is to address the origin of complex structures—including, but not limited to, living creatures—in the context of the big picture. The universe is a set of quantum fields obeying equations that don’t even distinguish between past and future, much less embody any long-term goals. How in the world did something as organized as a human being ever come to be?
You know, going back to the existence of existence itself. Cue Rummy?
...the interaction of gravity with other forces seems to be able to create order while still making the entropy go up—temporarily, anyway. That is a deep clue to something important about how the universe works; sadly, we aren’t yet sure what that clue is telling us.
Yo, BigMike! You're up.
Now that James S. Saint is gone.
Even if we don’t go as far as Descartes’s belief in an immaterial soul that somehow interacts with our body, it’s tempting to visualize a dictatorial “self” inside our brain that is the locus of our self-awareness. Philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term “Cartesian theater” to describe the supposed mental control room containing a tiny homunculus who gathers all of the input from our sensory organs, accesses our memories, and sends out instructions to the various parts of our bodies.
Yo, gib! Yo, Maia!
Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.
And then we die.
There is a wide gap between admitting that we don’t know everything about how the mind works and remembering that whatever it does, it needs to be compatible with the laws of nature.
Pick one:
1] God
2] No God
Quantum Mechanics doesn't deserve the connotation of spookiness in the sense of some ineffable mystery that it is beyond the human mind to comprehend. Quantum Mechanics is amazing; it is novel, profound, mind-stretching & a very different view of reality from what we’re used to.
Spooky, in others words.
Our goal over the next few chapters is to address the origin of complex structures—including, but not limited to, living creatures—in the context of the big picture. The universe is a set of quantum fields obeying equations that don’t even distinguish between past and future, much less embody any long-term goals. How in the world did something as organized as a human being ever come to be?
You know, going back to the existence of existence itself. Cue Rummy?
...the interaction of gravity with other forces seems to be able to create order while still making the entropy go up—temporarily, anyway. That is a deep clue to something important about how the universe works; sadly, we aren’t yet sure what that clue is telling us.
Yo, BigMike! You're up.
Now that James S. Saint is gone.
Even if we don’t go as far as Descartes’s belief in an immaterial soul that somehow interacts with our body, it’s tempting to visualize a dictatorial “self” inside our brain that is the locus of our self-awareness. Philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term “Cartesian theater” to describe the supposed mental control room containing a tiny homunculus who gathers all of the input from our sensory organs, accesses our memories, and sends out instructions to the various parts of our bodies.
Yo, gib! Yo, Maia!
Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.
And then we die.
There is a wide gap between admitting that we don’t know everything about how the mind works and remembering that whatever it does, it needs to be compatible with the laws of nature.
Pick one:
1] God
2] No God
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Emil M. Cioran from The Trouble with Being Born
I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Of course he's only paraphrasing me.
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Tell me that's not the human condition in a nutshell. One of them anyway.
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass—which is better than trying to fill them.
Writng books for example.
Nothing is better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.
Let's explain that. Try to, in other words.
I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.
As he is now, say.
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
He is certainly what some of us derisively call an optimist.
I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Of course he's only paraphrasing me.
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Tell me that's not the human condition in a nutshell. One of them anyway.
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass—which is better than trying to fill them.
Writng books for example.
Nothing is better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.
Let's explain that. Try to, in other words.
I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.
As he is now, say.
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
He is certainly what some of us derisively call an optimist.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
The Onion
Elon Musk Receives Experimental Neuralink Implant In Attempt To Delete Memory Of Being Booed
Cue Joel Barish!
‘I Don’t Love You Anymore And I’m Taking The Kids’ Talk Goes Surprisingly Well
At least until she turns up dead on Dateline.
Nation That Can’t Agree Upon Rules Of ‘Uno’ Attempts To Come To Ideological Consensus
Just out of curiosoity, is this a real thing?
Study: ‘Hangin’ In There’ Best One Can Now Feel
Followed by "okay, I guess", "I'm breathing" and "get out of here!"
Panhandler Really Appreciates It When People Make A Big Show Out Of Patting All Their Pockets
Or he spits on them.
Substitute Teacher Can Tell He’s Filling In For Real Asshole
No one takes a shot at him.
Elon Musk Receives Experimental Neuralink Implant In Attempt To Delete Memory Of Being Booed
Cue Joel Barish!
‘I Don’t Love You Anymore And I’m Taking The Kids’ Talk Goes Surprisingly Well
At least until she turns up dead on Dateline.
Nation That Can’t Agree Upon Rules Of ‘Uno’ Attempts To Come To Ideological Consensus
Just out of curiosoity, is this a real thing?
Study: ‘Hangin’ In There’ Best One Can Now Feel
Followed by "okay, I guess", "I'm breathing" and "get out of here!"
Panhandler Really Appreciates It When People Make A Big Show Out Of Patting All Their Pockets
Or he spits on them.
Substitute Teacher Can Tell He’s Filling In For Real Asshole
No one takes a shot at him.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Albert Camus from The Stranger
As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.
"That's brilliant, Satyr, brilliant!"
There is only one class of men, the privileged class.
Well, on this planet anyway.
For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
Good luck finding it yourself.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
The dusk of Autumn, Winter and Spring for others.
She was wearing one of my pajama suits, and had the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn't. She looked sad for a bit, but when we were getting our lunch ready she brightened up and started laughing and when she laughs I always want to kiss her.
Yo, Supannika!
...I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.
All the way to the grave if you're lucky.
As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.
"That's brilliant, Satyr, brilliant!"
There is only one class of men, the privileged class.
Well, on this planet anyway.
For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
Good luck finding it yourself.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
The dusk of Autumn, Winter and Spring for others.
She was wearing one of my pajama suits, and had the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I supposed I didn't. She looked sad for a bit, but when we were getting our lunch ready she brightened up and started laughing and when she laughs I always want to kiss her.
Yo, Supannika!
...I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.
All the way to the grave if you're lucky.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
The Onion
New Report Confirms You Are Most Interesting, Most Important Individual On Earth
On the other hand, link us to it.
EDM Remix Of ‘Jingle Bells’ Just The Push Man Needed To Kill Himself
Next up: EDM remix of "Oh Holy Night" takes down an entire congregation.
God Reveals Frogs’ Mouths Designed Specifically To Feel Awesome On Penis
Praise the Lord!
Kids Getting A Little Old To Still Believe In Innate Charitable Goodness Of Humans
After their schools get shot up especially.
Woman Who Had Almost Formed Healthy Sense Of Self Rejoins Social Media
That or she comes here.
Study: ‘Truly Being Seen’ Still Ranks Among Worst Possible Experiences In Human Existence
Number one with a bullet, let's say.
New Report Confirms You Are Most Interesting, Most Important Individual On Earth
On the other hand, link us to it.
EDM Remix Of ‘Jingle Bells’ Just The Push Man Needed To Kill Himself
Next up: EDM remix of "Oh Holy Night" takes down an entire congregation.
God Reveals Frogs’ Mouths Designed Specifically To Feel Awesome On Penis
Praise the Lord!
Kids Getting A Little Old To Still Believe In Innate Charitable Goodness Of Humans
After their schools get shot up especially.
Woman Who Had Almost Formed Healthy Sense Of Self Rejoins Social Media
That or she comes here.
Study: ‘Truly Being Seen’ Still Ranks Among Worst Possible Experiences In Human Existence
Number one with a bullet, let's say.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Milan Kundera from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Yeah, what about that?
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Define "happy"?
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
Define "totally"?
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
Nothing "perhaps" about that at all, is there?
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
Want me to flirt with you?
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
Think again?
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
Yeah, what about that?
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Define "happy"?
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
Define "totally"?
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
Nothing "perhaps" about that at all, is there?
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
Want me to flirt with you?
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
Think again?
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Philosophy Tweets
"Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you." Aristophanes
Get back to us on that, okay?
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people." John Lennon
I still know exacly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news. And this is true of no other musician.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." John Lennon
You know, being optimistic.
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." Arthur Schopenhauer
I'll never stop bringing this one back around.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." William Butler Yeats
See, I told you.
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens." William Butler Yeats
Or, sure, from time to time, barely happens.
"Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you." Aristophanes
Get back to us on that, okay?
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people." John Lennon
I still know exacly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news. And this is true of no other musician.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." John Lennon
You know, being optimistic.
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." Arthur Schopenhauer
I'll never stop bringing this one back around.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." William Butler Yeats
See, I told you.
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens." William Butler Yeats
Or, sure, from time to time, barely happens.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Sylvia Plath from The Bell Jar
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy of poppies.
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
Let's just say where there's a will there's a way.
Don't let the wicked city get you down.
Next up: the wicked suburb.
The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
Next up: the flawless woman.
I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Back then, in other words.
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.
She thought.
Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
The rest we all know.
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy of poppies.
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
Let's just say where there's a will there's a way.
Don't let the wicked city get you down.
Next up: the wicked suburb.
The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
Next up: the flawless woman.
I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Back then, in other words.
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.
She thought.
Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
The rest we all know.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Philosophy Tweets
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde
For example, given a particular context, whatever that means.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
Next up: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the pinheads.
"'It's time to stop. Why all the fuss?' My grandmother used to say that we shouldn't be slaves to haste." Isabel Allende
Unless, of course, haste is the only option.
“The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.” G.K. Chesterton
Things that "Christian apologists" say unwittingly.
"All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know who you are." Machiavelli
Well, that's rather cynical, isn't it? Though point taken of course.
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness”. Immanuel Kant
On the other hand, what if morality is not a doctrine?
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde
For example, given a particular context, whatever that means.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
Next up: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the pinheads.
"'It's time to stop. Why all the fuss?' My grandmother used to say that we shouldn't be slaves to haste." Isabel Allende
Unless, of course, haste is the only option.
“The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.” G.K. Chesterton
Things that "Christian apologists" say unwittingly.
"All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know who you are." Machiavelli
Well, that's rather cynical, isn't it? Though point taken of course.
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness”. Immanuel Kant
On the other hand, what if morality is not a doctrine?
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Ralph Ellison from Invisible Man
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
And then my take on that!
You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.
Use that yourself from time to time.
Live with your head in the lion’s mouth.
Get back to us on that.
I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.
Or for others: I COULD HARDLY GET TO SLEEP FOR DREAMING OF REVENGE!!!
And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.
Me, I'm a pitch black man myself.
Who am I? But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Maybe I was just this blackness and bewilderment and pain, but that seemed less like a suitable answer than something I'd read somewhere.
Unless, of course, it's both.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
And then my take on that!
You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.
Use that yourself from time to time.
Live with your head in the lion’s mouth.
Get back to us on that.
I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.
Or for others: I COULD HARDLY GET TO SLEEP FOR DREAMING OF REVENGE!!!
And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.
Me, I'm a pitch black man myself.
Who am I? But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Maybe I was just this blackness and bewilderment and pain, but that seemed less like a suitable answer than something I'd read somewhere.
Unless, of course, it's both.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
The Onion
Man Parallel Parking Tries To Leave Enough Room Between Cars To Infuriate Other Drivers Into Just Giving Up
Actually, this is a real thing.
Report: Thinking About Way You Look All The Time Burns 5,000 Calories An Hour
In la la land, for example.
Man Sleeps Through His Stop On Elevator
The horror! The horror!
Woman Promises Free Beer, Pizza For Any Friends Who Help Her Move Body Out Of Apartment
And, for some, that would be enough.
Man Wishes He Knew Enough About Cars To Tell If Repair Really Costs One Blow Job
Next up: full penetration.
BREAKING: Former Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, 67, Will Die
The sooner the better, he snorted.
Man Parallel Parking Tries To Leave Enough Room Between Cars To Infuriate Other Drivers Into Just Giving Up
Actually, this is a real thing.
Report: Thinking About Way You Look All The Time Burns 5,000 Calories An Hour
In la la land, for example.
Man Sleeps Through His Stop On Elevator
The horror! The horror!
Woman Promises Free Beer, Pizza For Any Friends Who Help Her Move Body Out Of Apartment
And, for some, that would be enough.
Man Wishes He Knew Enough About Cars To Tell If Repair Really Costs One Blow Job
Next up: full penetration.
BREAKING: Former Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, 67, Will Die
The sooner the better, he snorted.
-
iambiguous
- Posts: 11317
- Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
Re: Quote of the day
Fyodor Dostoevsky from The Brothers Karamazov
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Don't that beat all?
How good life is when one does something good and just!
Good and just...says who?
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with.
I'll have to get back to you on that one.
With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?
Distractions I call them. This being one in fact.
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.
Then those of course who will settle for the millions. Thousands even.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Coming here for some. No, seriously.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Don't that beat all?
How good life is when one does something good and just!
Good and just...says who?
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with.
I'll have to get back to you on that one.
With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?
Distractions I call them. This being one in fact.
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.
Then those of course who will settle for the millions. Thousands even.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Coming here for some. No, seriously.