Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Change, without fire or lightning



"It's all very fine to boast of mutual superiority but what about mutual equality. I resent violence and intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due instalments plan. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak."

Eumaeus, Ulysses

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Non Serviam




"I understand your point of view though I have no king myself for the moment. This is the age patent medicines. A discussion is difficult down here. But this is the point. You die for your country. Suppose. Not that I wish that for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!"

Circe, Ulysses