those who walk through the night blindly

[jez_hex]

Whenever you happen to take your children to the Zoo you may observe in the eyes of the apes, when they are not performing gymnastic feats or cracking nuts, a strange strained sadness. One can almost imagine that they feel they ought to become men, but cannot discover the secret of how to do it. On the road of evolution they have lost their way;

Comments

[dnwq]

Bertrand Russell: wild speculation edition

[re: addon] there is something very curiously satisfying about a statistically minor player being vindicated with SCIENCE! - I'm not really sure why.

[jez_hex]

I think the ape thing was meant to be more of an analogy than a serious speculation.. but heh I might be wrong

[capricity]

Since we are talking quotes, there was one that reminded me of you when I came across it. hm.

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
- Thomas Mann

[jez_hex]

touche