stolen from catskilt to inspire my world.

( don't work. avoid telling the truth. be hated. love someone. )

*DIES.*

*DIESDIESDIES*

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'fulfilment... is a function of time.  the search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal.  the variety-seeking of the spectator, the thrill-hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place.  it has an end.  it comes to the end and has to start over.  it is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

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'to him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.  it was not an easy job.'

----ursula le guin, 'the dispossessed'

'he had been groping and grabbing after certainty, as if it were something he could possess.  he had been demanding a security, a guarantee, which is not granted: and which, if granted, would become a prison.'

----ursula le guin, 'the dispossessed'

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why can't i love you in slow motion,
take my time,
take away the pressure on my mind
really get to know you
but rewind
wanna love you in slow motion
why can't I?

i have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. it opens.
i've been knocking on the inside.
----rumi, 'a door'

have jus significantly trimmed down my f-list - mainly ppl whom i initially added cuz i thot we had things in common in fandom, but now i find myself totally unable to keep up, so i'm removing myself.  if u happen to see me on ur f-list and have no effing idea why i should be there, please kindly remove me from ur f-list as well :) 

i wanna get me one of those...

Up On The Roof
Verlyn Klinkenborg
National Geographic May 2009

( A lofty idea is blossoming in cities around the world, where acres of potential green space lie overhead. )