RainyCoast

The head has two ears; love has just one: this hears certitude, whilst those hear doubt. Until you throw your sword away, you'll never become a shield; until you lay your crown aside, you'll not be fit to lead. The dead of soul is the destruction of life; but death of life is the soul's salvation. Never stand still on the path; become non-existent; non-existent even to the notion of becoming non-existent. And when you have abandoned both individuality and understanding, this world will become that. ~ Hakim Sanai

i loved that book, and the Hughes poem. Had no idea there was a movie.

he just gets it

We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful. — Umberto Eco

oooh good i feared you changed it due to a privacy concern or sumpin. it's been dull without you.

edit, yup. hi LaHermes !!

𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫. Cora is awesome. *spoiler alert* i love that it's pretty accurate from the psychological aspect too. her psychotic symptoms are an attempt to resolve the original, activating trauma that she hasn't resolved- and when she has a moment of lucid insight into her own repetition compulsion, seeing herself pressing her hand over the baby's mouth, she "gets" that she needs to do it differently this time. succeeds, and after that, she is able to return the baby to it's people, let "roy" go, acceptance replaces the manic defense and when he finds her again, she is, no wonder, sane. thanks! i will, i heard it's a parody on the "walking dead" type movies.

“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem.” - Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

“The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.” - C.S. Lewis

Counter I will build you a city out of rags, I say! I will build you, without blueprint or cement, A building which you will not destroy! And which a kind of foaming evidence Will support and swell, which will come to bray in your nose, And in the frozen nose of all your Parthenons, your Arabian arts and your .. With some smoke, with a dilution of fog And the sound of a drumskin, I will lay out superb and overwhelming fortresses for you, Fortresses made exclusively of eddies and shakes, Against which your multimillenial order and your geometry Will collapse into trifles and bosh and reasonless sandy dust. Toll! Toll! Toll on all of us, nothingness of the living! Yes, I believe in God! And of course, he knows nothing about it! Henri Michaux

also, have you hear the bathroom sirens? i'll never sing in the shower again. [video=youtube;sfLDOVcK7nU] ]

darn this scene was so haunting [video=youtube;oqVnm16pK_8] ]

It seems unremarkable at first, and then as time goes by it Starts to seem unreal, a figment of the years inside a universe That flows around them and dissolves them in the end, But meanwhile lets you linger in a universe of one —  A village on a summer afternoon, a garden after dark, A small backyard beneath a boring California sky. I said I still felt young, and so I am, yet what that means Eludes me. Maybe it’s the feeling of the presence Of the past, or of its disappearance, or both of them at once —  A long estrangement and a private singularity, intact Within a tinkling bell, an iron nail, a pure, angelic clang —  The echo of a clear, metallic sound from childhood, Where time began: “Oh, beautiful sound, strike again!” John Koethe

none may teach it There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons– That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes– Heavenly Hurt, it gives us– We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are– None may teach it–Any– ‘Tis the Seal Despair– An imperial affliction Sent us of the air– When it comes, the Landscape listens– Shadows–hold their breath– When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death– - Emily inson

people hold on to the fixity of symptoms as a guarantee of consistency, often at the cost of freedom and joy —ellie ragland-sullivan

So to have come to this, remembering what I did do, and what I didn’t do, The gulls whimpering over the boathouse, the monarch butterflies Cruising the flower beds, And all the soft hairs of spring thrusting up through the wind, And the sun, as it always does, dropping into its slot without a click, Is a short life of trouble. —Charles Wright

aww bummer. i laughed a bunch during this one.

i hear they did several parodies together, the lead actors. terrence hill and bud spencer kind of duo. must watch those.

Crows and ravens often mingle. TRUST

just watched hot fuzz and liked it.

i occasionally do a humorous tap-dance down the hall on my way out, in reverse. never fails to elicit howling laughter. i especially like to do it when someone is being obnoxious. it's a way of saying "walking away from your bull**** like" without actually saying anything. momma paid for them dance lessons, i better make them count in some way lol.

We are very engaged socially. SMILE

i think this is my favorite one though: “What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

i love those. if it weren't for the filter, i would post his private letters. hilarious, with all the curse words, today considered proof of his Tourrette's.