Archives for the 'Quotes' Category
The Lesson of the Moth
Friday, August 28th, 2009
The Lesson of the Moth
by Don Marquis
i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you [...]
Kerouac
Monday, August 10th, 2009
But then they danced down he streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because 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 [...]
Leo
Friday, March 13th, 2009
excerpt from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
My heart is weak and unreliable. When I go it will be my heart. I try to burden it as little as possible. If something is going to have an impact, I direct it elsewhere. My gut for example, or my [...]
Fantasies
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don’t- you can’t- want it anymore. In order to continue to exist desire must have it’s objects perpetually absent. Its not the it that you want, it’s the fantasy of it. So desire supports crazy fantasies. This is [...]
Reconsidering Television (by CrimethInc.)
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Revolution in Everyday Life—
Reconsidering Television
a look behind the ’scenes’:
inside the mind of a serial killer
Everyone knows how insipid and inane most television programs are. It’s clear to anyone who spends an hour in front of prime time that the sitcoms, news, and commercials alike are deliberately designed to appeal to lowest common denominator levels of [...]
Armistice Day.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh [...]