felix, who was and is still living under a dreadful curse which forces him to get whatever it is he loves for just one day and never again, first learned of his horrible affliction at the age of 19. prior to that he had always assumed that the way in which the world operated for him was the way in which it behaved for every individual. it wasn't ( Read more... )

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.i entered the anechoic chamber expecting to hear absolutely nothing, but when they closed the door, i heard two sounds, one high and one low. when i described it to the engineer in charge, he told me that the high one was ( Read more... )

i hadn't been in turkey long, certainly no more than a week, when i grew tired of my hotel room and decided i might relieve my ennui by taking a walk through the city. perhaps i would even see something interesting enough to tell at parties; there was certainly more chance of that on the street than in my room waiting for an audience with the ( Read more... )

i had something dreadfully important to write down, but i am very sorry to admit that i have just forgotten whatever it was that i had intended to say. how strange though, that i should hold it so near my heart for so long, and then when the time comes to finally release it, it should vanish from me entirely. how strange.


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'before i begin, i'd like to take a moment to honour a fallen hero. a man who showed the world that courage and bravery can take many forms and can come from the most unexpected places. steve irwin died doing what he loved. may we all be so fortunate ( Read more... )

on the bus from downtown to the beach there was a lady in pink. she must have been eighty, at least. she had bright pink hair with flowers in it, a matching pink dress, pink lips, pink nails, pink handbag, pink earings, and, in her shopping basket, there were boxes of pink kleenex ( Read more... )

"He who binds himself to a joy / Doth the winged life destroy /
But he who kisses the joy as it flies / Lives in eternity's sunrise."


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tomorow (monday) is my birthday. failure to wish me a happy one will result in a broken heart for me.

also

happy birthday simon and happy belated birthday anton