June 2013
4 posts
“Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.”
—Anne Sexton
“What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
May 2013
6 posts
“…for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”
—Will Gompertz
Relics and Embers
We met on that familiar street,
at that familiar house,
where you told me with a knowing look
that it was all a dream.
I don’t know what brought me here,
but I knew the dim glow of the garage lights,
the weathered wooden table,
and the cracked cement.
Our eyes met in the summer dusk
as distant bomb bursts and flashing colors
populated the night sky far above,
leaving faded embers in their wake.
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
—Ben Okri
“
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”
—Jack Kerouac
“In the medieval period, the university was a citadel, walled off and separate. We are post-citadel. It is wires, not spires, that define a university now.”
—Jeremy Adelman, Princeton professor after teaching his first history MOOC
April 2013
10 posts
“
If my dream was true, then everything we know, everything we think we know is a lie.
…It means that we’re just dolls. We don’t have a clue what’s really going down, we just kid ourselves that we’re in control of our lives while a paper’s thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they’re tired, or bored.
In my dream, I could have destroyed everybody in the world. In my dream, Gilbert wasn’t even a person; he was a place. In my dream, Grandma Unity gave up her life for me.
…I’ve been brooding on that night for too long now. Six months.
…”And then she woke up.” You know, I always hated stories that ended like that. I always felt cheated. Six months is long enough to feel sorry for yourself. Isn’t it? You can’t feel cheated forever.
” —Rose Walker, from Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: The Doll’s House”
“A prayer for the wild at heart that are kept in cages.”
—Tennessee Williams
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
—Frida Kahlo
“…A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”
—Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.”
—Neil Gaiman, American Gods
