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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.


Chuck Bukowski

ton of white-boy-guilt, that's my problem
obstacle to joy (one reason for drugs) slept on a mexican beach, slept in trash
(american trash) thinking too much can ruin a good time. I asked a mexican who
ran a bar for americans "who won" I said "the election?" he laughed and I felt
like a gringo - we paid for a song and they had fun...
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Sussex University: the start of the Autumn Term, 1974. There was not a seat to be had in the biggest Arts lecture theatre on campus. Taut with anticipation, we waited expectantly and impatiently for the advertized event to begin. He was not on time - as usual. In fact rumour had it that he would not be appearing at all that illness (or was it...
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We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )

"After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers Mary

A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind It cries Mary

The traffic...
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Harness my sexual temper and the machine of organic living beings will yield
the helm to my discretion. I would then say: Tis no lite matter to make such
messes of the consumated whole when burning in my pants is the future of a
soul.


Prisoner of love's yang

the beatiful potential
of the volatile season of femaginal innocence
is hastened to a close by...
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Umberto Eco

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

Joan of Arc
Live in Chicago, 1999
[Jade Tree; 1999]
Rating: 1.9
Joan of Arc is not as much a band as an indie rock accessory. They're as integral (and essentially inessential) to trendy college radio kids as tight shirts, sideburns shaped like Italy, low-hung backpacks, Goodwill coats (that could be going to people who don't have a trust fund), Parliament cigarettes, septum piercings, and...
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