“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”― James Joyce, Ulysses

" it seems that almost 95% of the American public is scientifically Illiterate."-Carl Sagan

 

Entry 736 = Conrad

“Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.” ― Joseph Conrad

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”― Tom Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

 

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”― Thomas Mann

 

“The true feeling for the beautiful is like liquid plaster which poured over the head of Apollo, and which touches and surrounds it in all its parts.”~~Winckelmann, Johann Joachim.

“The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....”― Jorge Luis Borges

 

“If I speak, I am condemned. >If I stay silent, I am damned!” ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

 

“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”― Stephen Jay Gould

 

DICK Duck and the Dorks

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dorks t-shirt, art by chick parker [RIP]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?20305-New-light-on-Mussolini-killing

 

http://www.ihffilm.com/dvd163.html

A sentence should be like a serpent

Quick with a sting in its tail
String me a line that has meaning and depth
There's no small talk with walky talkies
Small talk stinks.

“I cannot leave this subject as though its just treatment wholly depended either on our own pledges or economic facts. The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable, - abhorrent and detestable, even if it were possible, even if it enriched ourselves, even if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe. Some preach it in the name of Justice. In the great events of man's history, in the unwinding of the complex fates of nations Justice is not so simple. And if it were, nations are not authorized, by religion or by natural morals, to visit on the children of their enemies the misdoings of parents of rulers.” ― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace