Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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.................MUSIC...............

Music creates a pleasure so sensual and abstract, translates into vibrating air a nonlinguistic-nonlanguage whose meanings are forever just beyond reach, suspended tantalizingly at a point where emotion and intellect fuse.


paraphrased from Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
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Passionate striving. And for what? Money. Respect. Immortality. A way of denying the randomness that spawned us and of holding off the fear of death. Endeavor seemed pointless.

Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
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Who lives within a family living fragmented lives, too far, and barriers to communication.

Money has a role on an individual's confidence, social standing and expectations. But it just cannot buy happiness. We have unfulfilled yearning for connectedness.

Understand, do not deny, we live in a state of perpetual decay.
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I was born condemned to be one of those who sees all sides of a a question. When you're damned like that, the questions multiply for you until in the end it's all question and no answer.

Larry Slade
The Iceman Cometh

Saturday, October 21, 2006

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"You can't go neither forwards nor backwards in your Daddy's time, nor into your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any redemption, look there, and if you expect any judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time, and in your body, and where in your body can they be."

"Two things I can't stand. A man who doesn't know what's true, and a man who mocks what is."
Flannery O'Conner, Wise Blood.

Friday, October 20, 2006

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Assumption: that men, when hearing the Truth, will recognize it and act accordingly.

mek

Assumption: That man values Truth.

mek
 
 
 
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Friday, October 06, 2006

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"Stanley Ketchel was shot in the back and killed by the common law husband of the woman who had been cooking his breakfast."

Ring Lardner, 1910.

Ketchel is considered by many to be the greatest middle-weight who ever fought. He liked women.

Lardner's lead is likely the greatest lead ever written.
mek
 


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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

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"Billie Holiday was singing parlando, one of the late songs when she had lost her voice and had only her nerve in reserve. She was back on her sailboat in the middle of the Sound, maybe, in the moonlight, her voice filled with regret and desire; revenge would be the furthest thing from her mind. Successful revenge requires the cramped disipline of the accountant and she preferred the unruly emotions of the spendthrift. She needed protection, but there was none and so she sang. The song, imitated everywhere but never equaled. It would be a good thing if presidents were required to listen to the blues and a good thing also if they were require to drink while listening. The blues would give them an idea of the limits of human ambition and the consequences of righteous action, an appreciation of grief and ecstasy and inscrutable providence and the certainty of betrayal, along with the impression of memory and often its loss altogether. Truth and falsehood were next of kin. That was what Lincoln knew. " Ward Just Forgetfulness.
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Anyone who can give approximate date and location of photo below, based on clothing worn by revelers,and interior of the unknown night club will get five gold stars...
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"It was. It will never be again. Remember."

"The Book of Memory," Paul Auster
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"Ce n'est pas ce qui est criminel qui coute le plus a dire,
cest ce qui est ridicule et honteux."

It is not what is criminal that is hardest to acknowledge; but rather what is ridiculous or shameful.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau