Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Gunung
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
-Rene Daumal
Absenthe
"I want to be a poet, and I am working to make myself a seer: you will not understand this, and I don’t know how to explain it to you. It is a question of reaching the unknown by a derangement of all the senses."
-Arthur Rimbaud
-Arthur Rimbaud
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Four in hand
James Bond never trusted a man who boasted a Windsor Knot; "It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad." -From Russia With Love
Always a four-in-hand knot...
Always a four-in-hand knot...
Gold standard
Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
-Midnight in Paris
How frighteningly true in some ways...
Striking 12
“This is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
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