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Unpalatability

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in."


Dennis Potter, dramatist (1935-1994) 

Fools

They're tearing their own flesh apart. I do not understand.

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Entre-prendre

"Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue."


"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."


Gustave Flaubert, L'Education sentimentale (1869)

Megethos

  
"Tout ce que la constitution de l'univers nous astreint à souffrir, endurons-le en faisant preuve de grandeur d'âme."


Sénèque

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Dead things in the water

Dead things in the water

Dead things in the water

Make us wonder

Make us ponder

We know not what they are -

Dead things in the water

That come alive, that come alive

When we must dive

Dead things in the water

That breathe and butcher -

Dead things in the water

Dead things in the woods too

What are we supposed to do

If those renegade swimmers

Take us down underwater

What are we supposed to do

If those treacherous creepers

Take us deep into the wood -

Dead things in the air

Dead things in the air

Moulting, sloughing, skulking

Dead things that breathe like us

That came back to hunt us -

The things that are dead

The dead things in the water

Those things we fear

Those things we dread

Those hideous things murder

And feast on our dead -

Dead things in the water

Take the stranger

Take the stranded

We no longer are the hunter

We are now the hunted -

Dead things, dead things to us

Yet dead things that move

Creatures from the unconscious

Yet those that the waterline groove

Are more lethal and more vicious

Critters our minds can’t disprove -

Dead things in the water

That we shall become

If we must succumb

To the monsters

That scare and slaughter -

Dead things in the water

Dead things in the water

Do not linger

Do not linger

We do not know what they are -

Hide from the dark of the night

Shun the shadow of the day

Do not tarry where the dead lay

Wraith and crow and wight

Teeth and claws that slay

Hide away

Hide away from the dark night -

Yet if the dead catch you

Fight if you can, fight

For they will pursue

Hack and hew

Relentless and wild

Drag you into the deep blue -

Dead things

Dead things in the water

Darklings

That wring collars

That wreck tendons

That dwell deep in the water

That hide behind the firs

That fly out come sundown -

Dead things in the water

We watch and pray for

The fabric of life torn asunder -

Dead things in the water

We hold hands on the shore

While the dead beneath thunder -

Dead things in the water

We know not what they are

Yet hell-bent on killing us they are -

Dead things in the water

Dead things in the water

Dead things in the water -

Quelques minutes avant l'averse

Jardin botanique, Tours, France, 21.06.2012

Héron séchant ses ailes, vu du pont Wilson.

Where the heart is

"Méfiez-vous des gens dont on dit qu'ils ont le coeur sur la main. Comme ce n'est pas sa place, demandez-vous ce qu'ils peuvent bien avoir à la place du coeur."

Pierre-Jean Vaillard, chansonnier, écrivain, comédien de théâtre et de radio (1918-1988)

Long time no quote

"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."


Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)