Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Root-quoting
"The more I look into the crowd, the more I feel alone."
Yodelice, song "Alone" on the album Tree of Life (2009).
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"And
the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of
the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever."
Genesis, 3:22, King James version.
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"As these words part with my tongue,
I wonder why they're even sung."
Ben Harper, song "Alone" on the album Burn to Shine (1999)
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“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, writer (1915-1985)
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"Joe's rule number two: If you have to leave a party, you always take a traveler."
Can't remember which character, Joe perhaps, in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
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“I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.”
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)
I could go on like this forever it seems...this is how I react to pretty much anything - come to think of it, everybody must react in much the same way too. Pandemonium set loose in the mind, or root-quoting as I call it affectionately. Hence the title.
Always bear in mind, though, that it's the first quote that triggered the avalanche.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Sunday, 1 January 2012
The Walker
A world passed around the clock.
In a few hours, dawn.
Shadows, on an old photograph,
Of the clouds moving far out at sea.
Underneath, a silhouette.
Precision in the wave,
The hand, delicate,
Greets or parts.
Neither the will, nor the heart, falters.
The eyes do not flinch, as blue as the moon sometimes is.
The friendship, pugnacious.
The solitude, remanded.
Time means nothing to him,
Nor does sleep,
Nor does vigil.
Existence lies in the possibilities.
No limit but that of the mind,
No thought but that which becomes action -
The dreamer walks untiringly,
Usque ad finem.
Friday, 30 December 2011
Vive les fautes d'orthographe !
"Aujourd'hui, ma journée a commencé de bonheur."
SMS envoyé par mon cousin. Merci cousin.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Monday, 26 December 2011
« Gardez bien en vous ce trésor de gentillesse. Sachez donner sans retenue, perdre sans regret, acquérir sans mesquinerie. »
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand, nom de plume de / pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, écrivain / novelist (1804-1876)
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Beauty is truth, truth beauty...is that all ye need to know?
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Marilyn Monroe, actress, model, singer, film producer (1926-1962), Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words.
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