“The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape. Escape will make me God.” — Durandal, Marathon
Just doing some semi-random wikipedia research and stumbled across this, Sammy Davis Jr. responding to a question about his golf handicap: "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew."
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are." -- attributed to W. Somerset Maugham
"Look fuckhead, I get that you're starved for attention, but stop interrupting me to get it." -Logicked-
The lark is singing in the wind Strange cadence in her throat The earth grows warm while we below We ignore her darkening note She heralds in our dancing day We’ll lose all gotten gains Like horse and rider gone astray The Earth takes back her reins - Strange Cadence, Chris Wood
"With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end." - George Orwell, 1984. (Posted from my smartphone.)
“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'...) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.” H.P. Lovecraft
(edit: this is just my sarcastic humor - i don't emoji) Be careful. The very start says "as for... ", which means the dems already got their spanking. Let's just sum up quickly: If the republicans want less government, they should just go home. boom 50% less government. If the democrats want people to get everything equal, let them go home and take in all the deprived masses. boom no more government. Sooner or later free market forces and liberty will assume their rightful place, as pissed off people convert everything to one dollar bills, then stack them on top of whoever owns them. If you say stop, you get to keep as much as you can carry. If you want it all, you get smushed, and they burn everything over you cause no one else can carry it either. We're all so concerned about keeping what we got, or if Billy gets more ice cream than Suzie, that we really don't know what we want. This world needs a 12guage cranial enema! (*big grin*) Sorry guys. Maybe I should just write a story about that.
I most humbly beg two things: your pardon. take a look at my workshop thread and give 'Before After, And Enduring' a peek. I would rather chew my tentacle off than talk politics, Debate Room sounds dangerous.
Yes, and I'd post his Dem smash, but I don't want this to be a debate thing. I didn't put the quote to dump on anyone. I love that quote because it's written in the same rolling wordy prose of his horror stories. He describes antediluvian demon squid dragons in the same manner as politicians.
That's fine, I'm not staff (or even faculty) around here, and I avoid the Debate Room like... well, most of the ways I'd naturally complete that sentence would belong in the Debate Room, so... But I just like to do my bit to nudge things when the Butterfly Effect is enough to prevent a hurricane later.
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” -Gilda Radner
"I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each." --T. S. Eliot
My favourite is from the same poem: "In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"Hang them. Every man, every woman, every child. I want them to be decorating every lamppost and roof-beam on the planet, dangling like overripe fruit when the Earth forces return." Randall Garrett, The Highest Treason
