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"Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old
is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of
it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have
lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it
is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life."
Robertson Davies“There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.”
—The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, 1998
photo by loveblushfever (c)
serendipitous meeting. inclusive and unabashed
impatiently holding out
pleading some way into a darkness complete and forgiving
stray creations of the heart sit on the shelf
unfiltered and fully saturated
-vietta brauheim
“My whole life is a darkroom. One… Big… Dark… Room.” Winona Ryder as Lydia in Beetlejuice
~ I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane and I will take you with me!~Delia (Catherine O’Hara)
So rent a museum
and see yourself in mirrors –
In every room an exposition
of a different phase in your life
with all your figures and faces
and pictures of all the people who
passed through you
and all the scenes
you passed through
all the landscapes of living
and longing and desiring
and spending and getting
and doing and dying
and sighing and laughing and crying
(what antic gesturing!)
And walking through the house of yourself
you climb again to all
the rooms of yourself
full of the other lives & selves
who passed through them
Rooms rooms rooms
piled up haphazard
in the architecture of time
And all the bodies clinging to each other
or rushing to windows
to break out of the room
which they boxed themselves into
All the people of your life
in one house in the night
all lights lit
like a cruise ship at sea
From the collection “A Far Rockaway of the Heart”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960)
“There`s an old joke… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of `em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that`s essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it`s all over much too quickly.” – WOODY ALLEN
“Well,” said Pooh, ” and then he had to stop and
think. Because although eating honey was a very
good thing to do, there was a moment just before
you began to eat it which was better than when you
were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
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life or something like it 