"Warum? Warum wird uns, was schön war, im Rückblick dadurch brüchig, daß es häßliche Wahrheiten verbarg? Warum vergällt es die Errinerung an glückliche Ehejahre, wenn sich heraussstellt, daß der andere die ganzen Jahre einen Geliebten hatte? Weil man in einer solchen Lage nicht glücklich sein kann? Aber man war glücklich! Manchmal halt die ( Read more... )

things are looking up, both long and short term ( Read more... )

"[the seperation of history from memory occurs at] that moment when the obsessive grasp of passion finally loosens but whose true sadness is no longer to suffer from what one has so long suffered, henceforth to understand only with the mind's reason, no longer with the unreason of the heart ( Read more... )

"Memory and history, far from being synonymoous, appear now to be in fundamental opposition. Memory is life, borne by living societies founded in its name. It remains in permanent evolution, open to the dialectic of remembering and forgetting, unconscious of its sucessive deformations, vunerable to manipulation and appropriation, susceptible to ( Read more... )

LOL. These things on Facebook where you tell how you know someone are cool ( Read more... )

hey there's a new addition to the maple ave family.


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wowee zowee! the whole birthday thing worked out better than it has in years ( Read more... )

What better way to start the year than with a 4 hour pilgrimage to the Jell-o museum in LeRoy, NY.
What better way to end a pilgrimage than to turn it into a full blown road trip!
in the last 36 hours, isaiah and i drove over 1000 miles, visited two countries, saw one of the wonders of the world, and made it home for dinner, wow!


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"the Idiot of Music finished his song, and the President of Forgetting spread his arms and shouted: "Children, living is being happy!"

hey! little rock is nice ( Read more... )