The Luminous Eye

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007)

Ageusia

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

Charlie Brown

We should

"We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point."

Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, and playwright (1912-1990)

Johnny Flynn - The Wrote And The Writ

They're taking pictures of the man from God
I hope his cassock's clean
The burden of being our holy fellas
Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam

What of all those wayward priests?
The ones who like to drink
Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink

You wrote me oh so many letters
And all of them seemed true
Promises look good on paper
Especially from you, from you

The weight of all those willing words
I carried all alone
You wouldn't put your pen to bed
When we hadn't found our own, our own

Your sentences rose high at night
And circled round my head
The circle's since been broken
Like the priest before me is breaking bread

I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ
And soon I'll eat his flesh
I'm alone again before the altar
Shedding all my old regrets

The last of which I'll tell you now
As it flies down the sink
I never knew a part of you
You didn't set in ink, in ink

The letters that you left behind
No longer shall I read
Your blood's between the pages
And I can't stand to see you bleed

And I'll soon forget what was never there
Your words are ash and dust
All that's left is the song I've sung
The breath I've taken and the one I must

If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
People of letters your warning stands clear
Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear.

Alt-J - "Tessellate" (Official Video)

Prime

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, and playwright (1933-1983)

Still true two hundred years later

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

Taste of the art

"Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)

Logos Almighty

"No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

The Mime

The Mime