Quick 2007 Summation

Books Read:  96
Poems Written:  62

Just as it comes (Rhys)

You didn't ask to be born, you didn't make the world as it is, you didn't make yourself as you are. Why torment yourself? Why not take life just as it comes? You have a right to; you are not one of the guilty ones....When you aren't rich or strong or powerful, you are not a guilty one. And you have the right to take life just as it comes and to be as happy as you can.

Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

Your position in time

To the past you’re unimaginable; to the future, unintelligible.

Profusion

Clarity over clutter, but profusion before aridity.

Equation

Arrogance coupled with error births authoritarianism.

What use?

What use a duo with no duet?

Space is ego

Space is ego; time, superego; awareness is id.

What they cannot depict (Pamuk)

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is precisely what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Typecasting

Just as an actor becomes identified with his role (or even typecast by it), so, too, do we with ours.

On suicide

No programming is complete
without provision to delete.

Toleration

Toleration without communication comes hard.

My madness

My madness is prosaic; I long to taste the true surreal (while avoiding the dysfunctional).

Understanding

Understanding doesn't diminish a mystery.

In a gap

Labels overlap. Find freedom in a gap.

Ignored

The spells of the proficient are not so much hidden as ignored.

Already attained (Bellamy)

If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained.

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888