Be remembering, my friend, your greatest gift to yourself is your shadows, for this is what expresses your depth.
Elias
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
hexagonal galleries
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
axis of relationship
"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
Jorge Luis Borge
Jorge Luis Borge
decorate your soul
You Learn.
You Learn
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn...
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth...
And you learn and learn...
With every good-bye you learn.” ―
Jorge Luis Borges
You Learn
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn...
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth...
And you learn and learn...
With every good-bye you learn.” ―
Jorge Luis Borges
grains of sand
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
deep down
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be
put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or
later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or
later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
Saturday, February 11, 2012
bella ciao
The world is waking outside my windowBella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao
ciaoDrags my senses into the sunlightFor there are things that I must
doWish me luck now, I have to leave youBella ciao, bella ciao, bella
ciao ciao ciaoWith my friends now up to the cityWe're going to shake the
Gates of HellAnd I will tell them - we will tell themBella ciao, bella
ciao, bella ciao ciao ciaoThat our sunlight is not for franchiseAnd wish
the bastards drop down deadNext time you see me I may be smilingBella
ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciaoI'll be in prison or on the TVI'll
say, "the sunlight dragged me here!"
http://youtu.be/oSpqj3V0s2E
ciaoDrags my senses into the sunlightFor there are things that I must
doWish me luck now, I have to leave youBella ciao, bella ciao, bella
ciao ciao ciaoWith my friends now up to the cityWe're going to shake the
Gates of HellAnd I will tell them - we will tell themBella ciao, bella
ciao, bella ciao ciao ciaoThat our sunlight is not for franchiseAnd wish
the bastards drop down deadNext time you see me I may be smilingBella
ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciaoI'll be in prison or on the TVI'll
say, "the sunlight dragged me here!"
http://youtu.be/oSpqj3V0s2E
shattered windows
And they—the intellectual vagabonds—shattered the windows and rushed eagerly through the desecrating freedom of the fields, where festive nature wove songs of life; there where the golden crops danced in the wind, kissed by the sun.
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/intellectual-vagabonds
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/intellectual-vagabonds
arrogant waves
"And when the foam of the arrogant waves flows back sighing, the lustrous pearls of life lie on the sand.”
—Giorgio Colli, La Ragione Errabonda (The Wandering Reason)
—Giorgio Colli, La Ragione Errabonda (The Wandering Reason)
obscure clarity of words
"The reader participates in the effort of the
writer and the writer in that of the reader. Even if the two movements are
separated from each other, they are not so in the fact, which has not been much
considered, that the one who writes is always (simultaneously) a reader of the
text she is writing, and the one who reads is also himself (simultaneously) the
writer of the text that he is reading."..."Dressing
reality is thus the primary activity of the human being, the condition for
acting and itself an action, the essential form of action, insofar as thought
itself is the process of clothing reality (a fact that is not much considered).
What could we "do" without the capacity of "reading" reality. We would find
ourselves before a dark mass of foreboding and fear. The most important question
is not that of the greatest clarity (easiest words, dressed most modestly,
linearity in the correspondences), but rather, and maybe contrarily, that of the
greatest richness (different words contrasting the commonplaces, dressed in the
liveliest colors, uncertainty of correspondence). The word is also enchantment,
marvel, joyous invention, fancy, evocation of something other, not the seal of
the already seen, the confirmation of one's certainties."
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/canenero/the-obscure-clarity-of-words
writer and the writer in that of the reader. Even if the two movements are
separated from each other, they are not so in the fact, which has not been much
considered, that the one who writes is always (simultaneously) a reader of the
text she is writing, and the one who reads is also himself (simultaneously) the
writer of the text that he is reading."..."Dressing
reality is thus the primary activity of the human being, the condition for
acting and itself an action, the essential form of action, insofar as thought
itself is the process of clothing reality (a fact that is not much considered).
What could we "do" without the capacity of "reading" reality. We would find
ourselves before a dark mass of foreboding and fear. The most important question
is not that of the greatest clarity (easiest words, dressed most modestly,
linearity in the correspondences), but rather, and maybe contrarily, that of the
greatest richness (different words contrasting the commonplaces, dressed in the
liveliest colors, uncertainty of correspondence). The word is also enchantment,
marvel, joyous invention, fancy, evocation of something other, not the seal of
the already seen, the confirmation of one's certainties."
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/canenero/the-obscure-clarity-of-words
pearls on the shore
"The sudden entry of the unknown into daily life shakes up the reign of
enigmas. This is shown by all the cases of men and women who "go out of their
heads", as they say, in other words, who are no longer able to bring their
social identity and the perception they have of themselves into agreement. But
it is demonstrated still more clearly by what occurs in the course of revolts,
of riots, of ins...urrections.....Because, in the course of these social
tempests, individuals become more intelligent. Because the tricks of power
become banal when men and women cease to be so. Because insurgents, in the
community of unique ones, change their own lives and hence their understanding
of the world. Because amazement, which is the source of all authentic thought,
stands out above habit."ý"That these
moments of suspension of habit—and thus, of norms—are often only excesses of
fever of an organism that then returns to the normal temperature (the zero
degrees of survival), only serves to confirm the enigmatic relationship that
exists between intelligence and revolt. The arrogant wave of the latter leaves
its pearls on the shore for the former, then it retreats. But
where?"
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/diavolo-in-corpo/the-ferocious-jaws-of-habit
enigmas. This is shown by all the cases of men and women who "go out of their
heads", as they say, in other words, who are no longer able to bring their
social identity and the perception they have of themselves into agreement. But
it is demonstrated still more clearly by what occurs in the course of revolts,
of riots, of ins...urrections.....Because, in the course of these social
tempests, individuals become more intelligent. Because the tricks of power
become banal when men and women cease to be so. Because insurgents, in the
community of unique ones, change their own lives and hence their understanding
of the world. Because amazement, which is the source of all authentic thought,
stands out above habit."ý"That these
moments of suspension of habit—and thus, of norms—are often only excesses of
fever of an organism that then returns to the normal temperature (the zero
degrees of survival), only serves to confirm the enigmatic relationship that
exists between intelligence and revolt. The arrogant wave of the latter leaves
its pearls on the shore for the former, then it retreats. But
where?"
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/diavolo-in-corpo/the-ferocious-jaws-of-habit
piercing roar of wild laughter
"Listen, listen! It is the piercing roar of my wild laughter that is rumbling
overhead, in the heights!" ( is that what all those strange
noises are?)
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/in-the-realm-of-phantoms
overhead, in the heights!" ( is that what all those strange
noises are?)
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/in-the-realm-of-phantoms
Intellectual Vagabonds
"Oh, intellectual vagabonds! Pale, unrepentant subverters! The ones who gallop
on and on through the endless regions of their capricious imaginations that
create new things"......."There, where the state ceases to exist… but watch a
bit, my brothers: don't you see the rainbow over there and the bridges to the
overhuman?"
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/intellectual-vagabonds
on and on through the endless regions of their capricious imaginations that
create new things"......."There, where the state ceases to exist… but watch a
bit, my brothers: don't you see the rainbow over there and the bridges to the
overhuman?"
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/renzo-novatore/intellectual-vagabonds
Thursday, February 9, 2012
storyteller
The Bent Wheat Daily
Post Serial
September 27, 2001
And isn’t it just amazing?I was listening to a radio program last night whose guest was a writer by the name of David Hagberg that wrote a book titled “Joshua’s Hammer.” What is amazing about this writer is that the book is all about Osama Bin Laden and his organization, and also our organizations like the CIA. And the fictionalized events in his book, that he wrote a year ago, are happening right now. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. It is amazing from my own personal level, because I had just written a story that I wasn’t comfortable with, and I thought there must be a better way to explain my story, because it just didn’t say what I wanted it to say. So I re-wrote it, which I don’t do often. And I was scratching my head, trying to think of a way to explain it better with movies, because it is so easy to use a movie moment to recapture a feeling or emotion or idea. A moment from a popular movie is very much like a shared dream we all had. Like we all have experienced that particular situation, and can recall it on a multi-level basis because we lived it like a dream. And now we’re living it like reality. So following my impulses, I got up from my very comfortable chair, went to the store and bought a DVD of the movie Contact, so that I could listen to the director’s comments. Now listening to the audio over comments on a DVD will make an entire movie become multi-level. One is in the mind of the actor or director and can hear how the movie was constructed, and which parts or scenes are of special importance to them. And it will change that scene for you, because you know more about it. Like it was very difficult to produce, or it didn’t come out like they wanted so they changed it in the computer, or there was some idea that was intended, and the director will explain the storyline in more detail. And that explain the storyline in more detail, is like the difference between the book and the movie. And you know how it is different when you read a book you really like, and then see the movie, and how disappointing that may be, because it just doesn’t live up to your image? You are experiencing that movie on a multi-level.Anyway, before I get off track. So I’m listening to the director’s comments audio over the movie Contact, and I get a little bored with it. I look at the clock, and it says 11:11, which is now the magic number for me, I think it says, “change.” So I turn on the radio, which I’ve also been bored with lately, and low and behold, there is exactly what I wish to hear in that moment. And isn’t that just amazing?What I heard was this writer, David Hagberg say, “Hey guys, this is just a story that I made up. I’m a writer, I look at everything as being a story.” And I’m saying to myself,“Yeah, yeah, you must be a speaker with a big Ilda splash.” The storytellers. How we love the storytellers. The host of the radio program loves the storytellers, and quotes them often, looking up to them as being prophetic, like Authur C. Clark of 2001 fame. Or here is another one, Tom Clancy, who wrote a novel in 1994 titled“Debt Of Honour”, which describes how a Japanese pilot crashes a 747 into the US Capitol buildings killing the president and most of his cabinet. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. A storyteller sees everything in its basic elements. The antagonist, the protagonist, and the crisis. The storyteller sees the problem, whatever it is, on a multi-level basis, and the fiction storyteller will manipulate the story anyway he or she wishes. Normally there is a kernel of truth that a storyteller will heat up and make into delightful popcorn, and then the popcorn will go to the movies. We’ll eat the popcorn, while living the movie, and then, and this is the important part…ta…da…we pop the movie into reality. And isn’t it just amazing? ~ lfdeale
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfdeale/6838967853/in/photostream
Post Serial
September 27, 2001
And isn’t it just amazing?I was listening to a radio program last night whose guest was a writer by the name of David Hagberg that wrote a book titled “Joshua’s Hammer.” What is amazing about this writer is that the book is all about Osama Bin Laden and his organization, and also our organizations like the CIA. And the fictionalized events in his book, that he wrote a year ago, are happening right now. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. It is amazing from my own personal level, because I had just written a story that I wasn’t comfortable with, and I thought there must be a better way to explain my story, because it just didn’t say what I wanted it to say. So I re-wrote it, which I don’t do often. And I was scratching my head, trying to think of a way to explain it better with movies, because it is so easy to use a movie moment to recapture a feeling or emotion or idea. A moment from a popular movie is very much like a shared dream we all had. Like we all have experienced that particular situation, and can recall it on a multi-level basis because we lived it like a dream. And now we’re living it like reality. So following my impulses, I got up from my very comfortable chair, went to the store and bought a DVD of the movie Contact, so that I could listen to the director’s comments. Now listening to the audio over comments on a DVD will make an entire movie become multi-level. One is in the mind of the actor or director and can hear how the movie was constructed, and which parts or scenes are of special importance to them. And it will change that scene for you, because you know more about it. Like it was very difficult to produce, or it didn’t come out like they wanted so they changed it in the computer, or there was some idea that was intended, and the director will explain the storyline in more detail. And that explain the storyline in more detail, is like the difference between the book and the movie. And you know how it is different when you read a book you really like, and then see the movie, and how disappointing that may be, because it just doesn’t live up to your image? You are experiencing that movie on a multi-level.Anyway, before I get off track. So I’m listening to the director’s comments audio over the movie Contact, and I get a little bored with it. I look at the clock, and it says 11:11, which is now the magic number for me, I think it says, “change.” So I turn on the radio, which I’ve also been bored with lately, and low and behold, there is exactly what I wish to hear in that moment. And isn’t that just amazing?What I heard was this writer, David Hagberg say, “Hey guys, this is just a story that I made up. I’m a writer, I look at everything as being a story.” And I’m saying to myself,“Yeah, yeah, you must be a speaker with a big Ilda splash.” The storytellers. How we love the storytellers. The host of the radio program loves the storytellers, and quotes them often, looking up to them as being prophetic, like Authur C. Clark of 2001 fame. Or here is another one, Tom Clancy, who wrote a novel in 1994 titled“Debt Of Honour”, which describes how a Japanese pilot crashes a 747 into the US Capitol buildings killing the president and most of his cabinet. And isn’t it just amazing?And yes it is just amazing. A storyteller sees everything in its basic elements. The antagonist, the protagonist, and the crisis. The storyteller sees the problem, whatever it is, on a multi-level basis, and the fiction storyteller will manipulate the story anyway he or she wishes. Normally there is a kernel of truth that a storyteller will heat up and make into delightful popcorn, and then the popcorn will go to the movies. We’ll eat the popcorn, while living the movie, and then, and this is the important part…ta…da…we pop the movie into reality. And isn’t it just amazing? ~ lfdeale
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfdeale/6838967853/in/photostream
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
perception
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see."
~Anais Nin
Monday, February 6, 2012
Mad To Live
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes, 'Awww!'"
Jack Kerouac
cake
“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.” ―
all the stories
“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
wake with a bang
“Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.”
Crazy Joker
“If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.”
Joker
“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
a little light madness
“Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.”
the ideal people inside his head
“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry--emotions which were presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he washolding with the ideal people inside his head.”
Banker Spirit
“Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel
Employing Magic
“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.”
Curious Magicians
“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.” ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Eccentric Conversational Houses
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
what if...
"...i didn’t Hope it would happen, i wasn’t waiting to See if it would happen, i wasn’t Expecting it to happen, i had nothing emotionally tied up in whether it happened or not. i didn’t Want it to happen in the way that i was trying to Make it happen. i was just in a light-hearted mood and thought, what if... without anything, anything at all, getting in the way. and it immediately happened."
Judyette Clarke
Judyette Clarke
Deafening Blue
“After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Drunk on Magic
“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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