December 2010
12 posts
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke : The Duino Elegies
“She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling...”
– The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
“Well, I’ve gotta go learn a bunch of people’s names before I fire...”
– The inimitable Roger Sterling in Mad Men Season 4 Ep. 12
“Oil is at once sociology and pathology.”
– Ghana And The Road To Nigeria By Pius Adesanmi | Sahara Reporters
“Cultures that don’t laugh at themselves are cults.”
– http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/four-reasons-google-is-still-awesome.html
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
The garden flew round with the angel,
The angel flew round with the clouds,
And the clouds flew round and the clouds flew round
And the clouds flew round with the clouds.
-- Wallace Stevens : The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
“You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so paranoid of itself...”
– Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu