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Philosophy of the Void <center> "a meaningless discussion of nothingness"</center>
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http://verbumlogos.blogspot.com/2010_05 ... 3675450320“Restlessly I searched for her thousands, hundreds of ways./ Suddenly I turned, and there she was in the receding light.”
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"If You Love Southern Girls, Raise Your Glass. If Not, Raise Your Standards"
http://confessionsofamadprofessor.blogs ... -john.html
http://confessionsofamadprofessor.blogs ... -john.html
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I don't like her blog that much, I just like the quote. Reminds me of my hero Ignatius J. Reilly in a novel called A Confederacy of Dunces. The scene in the novel where Myrna Minkoff tries to enlighten some southern coeds.
From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.
My wheel is turning and I can't go back.Fortuna was also used by a character in the novel "Confederacy of Dunces";the main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, makes many references to "Fortuna's wheel" and also Boethius's works.
Are you trying to stay the force of her turning wheel? Ah! dull-witted mortal, if Fortune begin to stay still, she is no longer Fortune."
~ Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (Text)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_Fortunae
From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.
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Obscure lyrics that you think are brilliant
One night we're playing gin by a crackling fire,
and I decided to make my play
I said, "Babe, with my boyish charm and good looks
how can you stand it for one more day?"
She said, "Maybe it's the skeevey look in your eyes,
that your mind has turned to applesauce,
or the dreary architecture of your soul."
I said, "But what is it, exactly, turns you off?"
--Steely Dan, "Cousin Dupree"
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"attention to his present amounted to a reclamation of time itself--of the span of moments--from the claims of the state ...."
Stafford like Frost uses deceptively simple surfaces in his lyrics as "a way of adressing the reader and creating through parable, a way of living that has been 'forgotten by everyone.'"Stafford in his poem tells us of the peaceable community at its marches or history from the bottom up as well as attention to the natural world as an act of reistance: "attention to his present amounted to a reclamation of time itself--of the span of moments--from the claims of the state ...."
http://www.redroom.com/blog/julia-stein ... rld-war-ii
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The limits of American power
America has for decades projected an image of modernity and technological superiority, disguising a dirty little secret. Behind the chrome, it's crumbling. At least, it doesn't feel very up to date. Many Americans don't travel widely and so believe their own propaganda.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... power.html
If you can't give me love and peace, Then give me bitter fame. — Akhmatova.
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Years ago I figured the world to be a liar. That left only me and the truth standin' there. I looked truth in the eye and said: "Ok, pal, so what's your story and what good are ya?" That discussion is still on-going. One thing it did teach me was it was perfectly alright to always shoot from the hip. It isn't that it always works out or always don't work out but that the outcome is never in our own hands. What was it Jerry Lee Lewis said? Oh yeah, "But it sure is fun."
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.
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I can take up arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them.
or I can do this.
great balls of fire
not in my hands for sure
I just dig the go the jam the let it rip
just stuff passing through my field of consciousness.
my window on the world
And, by opposing, end them.
or I can do this.
great balls of fire
not in my hands for sure
I just dig the go the jam the let it rip
just stuff passing through my field of consciousness.
my window on the world
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"I want to create wilderness out of empire."
-Gary Snyder
Free Rice
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I am not a veteran of the South East Asian War Games
http://www.landscaper.net/short.htm
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I hear ya on that, Jack.
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.
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