February 2012
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” ‘Here someone thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears that I must play them, and no others.’ “
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“No more choices, please no more choices.”
– Doctor Parnassus
I really need to start dating or something.
Koan 258
Lovers learn the most from unrequited love.
- คนรักเรียนมากที่สุดจากรักที่ไม่สมหวัง
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“All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the...”
– Ecclesiastes 1:7-9 (via somecallmejuke)
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“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth...”
– Ecclesiastes 1:16 - 1:18 (via a-higher-level)
In all seriousness, this is the first and only tattoo I’ve ever considered getting.
(via shoesandsealingwax)
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did...
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Koan 63
I’m not here to heal the blind. Just to pass out bifocals.
- ฉันไม่ได้อยู่ที่นี่เพื่อที่จะรักษาคนตาบอด เพียงแต่ให้แว่นตาชนิดซ้อน
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“‘Thou should’st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad?...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
gluemesunday replied to your quote: ‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are…
I really need to read this.
Do it! It’s more helpful than counseling or Prozac, I guarantee you.
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“‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof;...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
A good chunk of my concerns about life are addressed here.
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“…Take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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whiskyshakes asked: What kind of bike were you standing next to in that picture? I thought it was a Globe Daily, but can't really tell.
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“‘Cursed be that mortal inter-debtedness which will not do away with...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
So here’s what’s going on:
My mom has a guy friend who is in love with her. They met online when I was still in high school. They’ve met in person, and he’s always been there for her throughout all of her crap with these creepy men. He seems like a really solid guy, and I never say that about the guys she dates, because she always dates fucking weird guys.
Mom and I are...
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“Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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Having a Jeff Buckley song stuck in my head is as simultaneously terrible and wonderful as being horny.
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zenmystic replied to your quote: There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe…
How could anyone dislike this book?
It’s impossible. And if I ever encounter a person who dislikes Moby-Dick, well, come visit me in prison, for we know what would soon follow.
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“If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
I look like such a hipster, some pseudo-intellectual college student, sitting in the Starbucks inside a Barnes & Noble, dressed the way I’m dressed, picking through Sartre. But whatever—I guess the point of coming here wasn’t for appearances, so it shouldn’t matter.
I thought reading about Existentialism would sinew my depression and pervasive overall feeling of doom,...
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“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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“But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and everyone knows that in most...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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Koan 26
It is better to give than to receive. But expect nothing from me.
- การให้ดีกว่าการรับ แต่อย่าคาดหวังอะไรจากฉัน
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“But there is another thing to rebut. They hint that all whales always smell bad....”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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30 Day Introspective Challenge
24. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
I’d visit the clerk at a gun shop. There’s no way I’m going to live without them.
Then I’d visit Grandma Bird & bring chocolate & wine for her.
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“Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Gee, Melville, that’s…
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“The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity,...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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“From this we see why our ideas so often cause horror. Many people have but one...”
– “Existentialism is a Humanism” Jean-Paul Sartre
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“‘What’s the matter with your nose, there?’ said Stubb....”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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“But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
I wish I was more like Ishmael.