"the only reason i ever did this, the only reason anyone ever did this, is because i wanted to talk to you all and perhaps because i wanted you all to talk back.  it's a loneliness thing, because a computer and sitting at it and typing on it is lonely; a computer is lonely.  to use it to make some sort of connection-- what exactly is going on here ( Read more... )

"What kind of work is that for a panserbjorn?"

I was beginning to realize that I'd never seen him so upset before.  With another part of my mind I was thinking that this would probably turn out to be one of those things kids go through and that I shouldn't make it seem important by pushing it too hard.  Still, I didn't think it would do any harm to ask: "Doesn't all this take a lot of time?  ( Read more... )

"don't try and shit higher than your arse."
-ludwig wittgenstein, on changing the world

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"there's so much hope
buried underneath
tragedy
it's the same shade as concrete
let the flood swell"
-circle takes the square

"nobody knows anything but the rain.  when the drops drop, and the concentric circles ripple from where the drop dropped, in the black puddle in the street, that's all that people know that's true.  everything else is just fake."
-Cecil Taylor

'O comrades, for not ere now are we ignorant of ill, O tried by heavier fortunes, to these also God will appoint an end.  The fury of Scylla and the roaring recesses of her crags you have come nigh, and known the rocks of the Cyclops.  Recall your courage, put sorrow and fear away.  This too sometime we shall haply remember with delight.  Through ( Read more... )

IN THESE CITY STREETS
IS WHERE THIS CITY'S HEART BEATS

"But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said 'My father!' And he said, 'Here I am, my son.'  Then he said, 'Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?'
Genesis 22:7