Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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"Plain and loved, loved for ever, they say. Ugly: no woman thinks she is. Love, lie and be handsome for tomorrow we die."

Nausicaa, Ulysses

Sunday, June 20, 2010

One-eye Nations



"But it's no use. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life.

What?

Love. I mean the opposite of hatred."

Cyclops, Ulysses

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Hersexysounds



"It is a kind of music I often thought when she. Acoustics that is. Tinkling. Empty vessels make the most noise. Because the acoustics, the resonance changes according as the weight of the water is equal to the law of falling water. Like those rhapsodies of Liszt's, Hungarian, gipsyeyed. Pearls. Drops. Rain. Diddleiddle addleaddle ooddleooddle. Hissss."

Sirens, Ulysses

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Q, not Q




" 'The men where you live,' said the little prince, 'grow five thousand roses in the same garden and they do not find what they are looking for ... and yet, what they are looking for could be found in a single rose or in a little water.'

'Yes, indeed,' I replied.

And the little prince added: 'But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.' "

The Little Prince

In routine, there is difference, without which days are randomly everything and nothing.




" 'It is something which is all too often forgotten'. said the fox. 'It is what makes one day different from other days, one hour different from other hours. For example, there is a rite among hunters. On Thursdays they go dancing with the village girls. So Thursday is a marvellous day for me. I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters were to go dancing just any day, every day would be like any other day for me and I would never have a holiday.' "

The Little Prince