November 2010
61 posts
October 2010
91 posts
“I misjudged you,” Harvey said. “You’re not a moron. You’re
only a case of arrested development.”
—-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
—Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
there is no end, only coming and going.
“Daddy?”
“Yes.”
“Where did Uncle George go?”
“He’ll turn up all right.”
“Is dying hard, Daddy?”
“No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.”
-Ernest Hemingway, Indian Camp
Play
5 minute poem
you can wrestle clouds
but it won’t stop
the rain
Play
When I'm Small
Phantogram
Phantogram — “When I’m Small”
Take me underground, take me all the way
Bring me to the fire, throw me in the flame.Show me love
You’ve got your hands on a button now.
