"When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real."

-- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Not because it was ugly but because it showed his terrible flaw so clear: reminding him it was not Moldweorp he hated so much as a perverse idea of what is clean; not the girl he sympathized with so much a her humanity. Fate, it occured to him then, chooses weird agents.-- Thomas Pynchon, Under the Rose

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Que le bon dieu vous garde... = That the good God be with you...

United States Shut Your Third Damn Eye America for a Reason!

A thing that is infinite and eternal hath no qualities, since it hath all qualities.

-- C.G. Jung, Seven Sermons of the Dead

Oh tempora oh mores!

espontáneo- in bullfighting, a spectator that jumps into a ring, attempting to impersonate the matador

All human beings are limbs of each other,
having been created of one essence.

When time affects a limb with pain,
The other limbs cannot at rest remain.

If thou feel not other's misery,
A human being is no name for thee.

Sa'adi - c. 1210-1290

when there is nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire - stars (from the song your ex-lover is dead)

"Vi veri universum vivus vici - translates-By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe"

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

-- Abraham Maslow

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. - Epictetus, Encheiridion: The Manual for the Living

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

What I fear most
is becoming "a poet"...
Locking myself in the room
gazing at the sea
and forgetting...
I fear that the stitches over my veins might heal
and, instead of having blur memories about TV news,
I take to scribbling papers and selling "my views"...
I fear that those who stepped over us might accept me
so that they can use me.
I fear that my screams might become a murmur
so that to serve putting my people to sleep.
I fear that I might learn to use meter and rhythm
and thus I will be trapped within them
longing for my verses to become popular songs.
I fear that I might buy binoculars in order to bring closer
the sabotage actions in which I won't be participating.
I fear getting tired - an easy prey for priests and academics -
and so turn into a "sissy"...
They have their ways ...
They can utilize the routine in which you get used to,
they have turned us into dogs:
they see to us being ashamed for not working...
they see to us being proud for being unemployed...
That's how it is.
Keen psychiatrists and lousy policemen
are waiting for us in the corner.
Marx...
I am afraid of him...
My mind walks past him as well...
Those bastards...they are to blame...
I cannot -fuck it- even finish this writing...
Maybe...eh?...maybe some other day...

by Katerina Gogou

How Long? Not long because no lie
can live forever...
How long? Not long because
you shall reap what you sow...
How long? Not long, because the
arc of the moral universe is
long but it bends towards justice.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm where each one takes
His chamber in the silent halls of death.
Though go not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one that wraps that drapery of his couch
About him, and Lies down to pleasant dreams...

William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Yes--- We are tired of being lynched physically in Misssissippi, and we are tired of being lynched spiritually and economically in the North. We have also come here today to remind Chicago of the fierce urgency now. This is no time to engage in luxury of cooling off or to take the 'tranquilizing drug of gradualism'. We have also come here today to affirm that we will no longer sit idly by in agonizing deprivation and wait on others to provide our Freedom... Freedom is never voluntarily granted by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.

This day--- Henceforth and forever more, we must make it clear that we will purge Chicago of every politician, whether he be Negro or White, who feels he owns the Negro vote rather than earns the Negro vote.

- Martin Luther King. Jr., Soldier Field July 10th, 1966 -

Shma Y'sroel, Hashem Elokainu, Hashem Echad

Soyez Réalistes, Demandez L'Impossible