Nietzsche ….two worlds…

May 3, 2011

Deception, flattering, lying and cheating, talking behind the back, posing, living in borrowed splendor, being masked, the disguise of convention, acting a role before others and before oneself—in short, the constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is more incomprehensible than how an [...]

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Nostalgia

September 14, 2010

Tram wires cross melbourne skies cut my red heart in twomy knuckles bleed down johnston streeton a door that shouldnt be in front of me twelve thousand miles away from your smilei’m twelve thousand miles away from mestanding on the corner of brunswickgot the rain coming down and mascara on my cheek oh whisper me [...]

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Naipaul on Gandhi…

August 20, 2010

‘He sees the Indian callousness, the Indian refusal to see. No Indian attitude escapes him, no Indian problem; he looks down to the roots of the static, decayed society. And the picture of India which comes out of his writings and exhortations over more than thirty years still holds: this is the measure of his [...]

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Eternal Return…

August 16, 2010

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and [...]

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Translated Suntory Times:

August 1, 2010

Translated dialogue from the hilarious Suntory Time whiskey commercial scene from the film Lost in Translation. Bob, who is in town to make a whiskey commercial, doesn’t speak Japanese. His director (Yutaka Tadokoro), a histrionic Japanese hipster, doesn’t speak English. In one scene, Bob goes on the set and tries to understand the director through [...]

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Belongingness

May 31, 2010

But where you are from feels sort of irrelevant these days, since everyone has the same stalls in their mini-malls.~ Generation X , Douglas Coupland.

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Help Yourself

January 17, 2010

I know you’ll help us when you’re feeling better and we realize that it might not be for a long, long time But we’re willing to wait on you We believe in everything that you can do if you could only lay down your mind I want you to try to help yourself Take the [...]

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Brothers Karamazov

January 17, 2010

Rosewater said an interesting thing  one time about a book that wasnt ascience fiction. He said that everything there was to know about life was in the Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky. ‘But, that isn’t enough any more’said Rosewater.~Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

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Zadie on Clooney

January 14, 2010

What is Clooney saying? A sentence he  began sparklingly  with Ocean’s 11 (2001) , which  stumbled at intolerable cruelty  (2003), and grew lamentable at oceanstwelve (2004 ), having seemed almost to make sense with confessions of adangerous mind (2002,) now reaches its conclusion with the impressive goodnight and good luck and the  rigorous Syriana . [...]

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Sharks

January 6, 2010

nce, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black and the sun fainting away over the lip of the sky.We’d put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing. It was me had the first strike. A shark [...]

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Gossip – Standing in the way of control

December 27, 2009

Your back’s against the wallThere’s no-one home to callYou’re forgetting who you areYou can’t stop cryingIt’s part not giving inAnd part trusting your friendsYou do it all again And I’m not lying Oh oh oh oh ohh Oh ohhOh ohh Oh oh oh oh ohh Oh ohh Standing in the way of controlYou live your [...]

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Aimlessness….

December 15, 2009

“There is a tendency in the middle of the writing of a novel for the writer to feel adrift, lost floating aimlessly in a rough uncharted ocean of words. You are too far from the beginning to feel the enthusiasm that set you on your way all those words ago and too far from the [...]

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Habitation

December 15, 2009

Marriage is not a house, or even a tent It is before that, and colder: the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs at the back, where we squat outdoors, eating popcorn where painfully and with wonder at having survived this far we are learning to make fire. ~Margaret Atwood

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A Radically Condensed History of Post Industrial Life

December 12, 2009

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious [...]

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A poem of Friendship

November 27, 2009

We are not loversbecause of the lovewe make but the love we have We are not friendsbecause of the laughswe spendbut the tears we save I don’t want to be near youfor the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak I will never miss youbecause of what we dobut what we [...]

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Realtor

November 25, 2009

When I met you,I didn’t know what to do. I was tired,I was hungry,I fight. Now I’m away,I write home everyday and I see you on the TV at night.(Chorus)You can see that life’s for us to talk about.You can leave whenever you want out.Whoa. You don’t relate to me,no girl,you don’t respect me,no girl,no [...]

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Travel Thoughts

November 6, 2009

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party”s [...]

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Trust

October 31, 2009

Trust Oh we’ve got to trust one another again in some essentials. Not the narrow little bargaining trust that says: I’m for you if you’ll be for me. – But a bigger trust, a trust of the sun that does not bother about moth and rust, and we see it shining in one another. Oh [...]

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Lay your sleeping head, my love,

September 24, 2009

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful. Soul and body have no bounds: [...]

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The Infinities

August 14, 2009

One long, languid midsummer’s day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father’s bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations with their mother, Ursula, and their dying father, old Adam, are as strained as ever. Adam’s relationship with his wife, Helen, seems too on the [...]

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