September 2006
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Unreliable Witnesses
A man speaks of no subject as ineptly as he speaks of himself.
This World Will Pass Away
This world will pass away and my emotions with it will fade. Why should I strive for acceptance or peace of mind?1 The joy of joys is remember how lucky you are to have the friends you have — simply for what they’ve done with their lives, for the inescapable proof they’ve provided of who [...]
For I Can Breathe
The vigor in my soul won’t stand for this anymore. The potency that is my being is far from ruin, far from silenced and far from death. With severed legs I’d walk with intent to prosper — a body plagued with sickness and still I’d dare to dream. For I can breathe. My blood is [...]
Begin Again
Begin again as if you never began.1 This Day Forward : In Response : Nouveau↩
Stanislav Petrov
Remarkably, we have built a world for ourselves in which a single man, Stanislav Petrov, may have done more good for humanity in a single hour than all other men in the history of the world. Stanislav Petrov’s Entry On Wikipedia Twenty three years ago from yesterday, Stanislav Petrov did not inform superiors that his [...]
A Head Full Of Quotations
It never ceases to amaze me how I think using quotations, how a thing once said well thereafter becomes for me a permanent means of holding onto a thought — as if with poems, lyrics and aphorisms I might put the truth, that so airy and insubstantial thing, into bottles from which I may draw [...]
How Much Falsehood Is Still Required
To believe in the efficacy of our actions may be to indulge a delusion, but it is a delusion that, like the delusions upon which sense perception is built, is required for us to live properly. But even if this all were true and I were accused of it with good reason, what do you [...]
Variations On A Theme
She rolls her eyes and lights another: “one day I’ll quit these things. They’re killing me.” She blows her brains right out her fucking mouth. “I just don’t know how you do it.” Well, there is nothing in me that you don’t have deep within your fucking self. Yes, the body is weak, but the [...]
Let Us At Last Praise
The world has turned and left me here, just where I was before you appeared. And in your place an empty space has filled the void behind my face.1 I think nothing gives me such hope in life as knowing that Rivers Cuomo and Chris Carraba are both happily married. Weezer : Blue Album : [...]
For Harek
Time flies and it’s flown away with me this time. All my good intentions taken out by my absent mind. Apologies are far too small when in them arrogance stands tall, so let me throw away my pride, because I have nothing to hide. This is our fight, side by side, reaching out to make [...]