last day of 2011

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”― T.S. Eliot

 

Frazzle on the Dazzle

Impetus on the Frazzle Dazzle

My owner, who owns what

A slave to what

In the bus, I look at the faces

Is that one sad, or lost

The lady over there

Is that tragedy written on her face

Imprinted on mine, exiled, drifting

We are prisoners in our aloneness

Riders in electric mobile chairs, modern crutches

Lost bugs amid the boundless desert dunes

The trails that come to it's logical ends

Alienated in a town of zombies

Heading towards the unseen horizons

They don't even see me

Condemned, I am invisible, unseen

Ready for History's dustbin

The College of the Damned, the unfortunates

Held down

Held down fast by the top-downers

Screw You.

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

this is the #, 700 post

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” ― Jack London

“Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”― Michel Foucault

 

 

“Words are loaded pistols.”― Jean-Paul Sartre

 

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.~A. Camus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3hzYRVAkUs

"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
—The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, 1998-BUKowski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn
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“Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park.” Charles Bukowski 

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ― André Gide

Beethoven's sober assessment of the population's view is, "I believe that as long as an Austrian can still have Braun's beer and sausages, he will not revolt".

“And he that strives to touch the stars -Oft stumbles at a straw.”
― Edmund Spenser

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
― John Ruskin

 

“Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
― Nikolai Gogol

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“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, -The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.” ― Maxim Gorky

 

“I’ve lived to bury my desires,

And see my dreams corrode with rust;

Now all that’s left are fruitless fires

That burn my empty heart

PUSHkin

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It 

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

 

“One tells as few lies as possible... only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportuinty to do so.” ― Franz Kafka

Psalm 91 >>King James Version

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1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 

 

Your name and your deeds were forgotten
Before your bones were dry,

And the lie that slew you is buried

Under a deeper lie;

But the thing that I saw in your face

No power can disinherit:

No bomb that ever burst

Shatters the crystal spirit.
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Taken from ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’, published by New Road, 1943. Poem written 1939

~george Orwell~

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” ― Isaac Asimov

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Spirit must be transformed into material force before it can move the world forward.” ― Zhou Enlai

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