“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

 

“Most people in America think Art is a man's name.”― Andy Warhol

 

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”― John Kenneth Galbraith

 

“He that will not set himself proudly at the top of all things, but will consider the immensity of this fabric, and the great variety that is to be found in this little and inconsiderable part of it which he has to do with, may be apt to think that, in other mansions of it, there may be other and different intelligent beings, of whose faculties he has as little knowledge or apprehension as a worm shut up in one drawer of a cabinet hath of the senses or understanding of a man; such variety and excellency being suitable to the wisdom and power of the Maker. -- 1690”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 

 

Clay

“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha

 

 

“I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35 per cent bad—that's a very good guy. The average decent fellow might be 54 per cent good, 46 per cent bad—and the average mean spirit is the reverse. So say I'm 60 per cent bad and 40 per cent good—for that, must I suffer eternal punishment?

"Heaven and Hell make no sense if the majority of humans are a complex mixture of good and evil. There's no reason to receive a reward if you're 57/43—why sit around forever in an elevated version of Club Med? That's almost impossible to contemplate.”
― Norman Mailer, On God: An Uncommon Conversation 

Ecclesiastes 5:15 ~Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from this world that he can carry in his hand.