“… I’m worse at what, I do best, and for this gift, I feel blessed.”
—Nirvana ( Smells like teen spirit )
October 2011
5 posts
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
- Franz Kafka” —whiskey rivers commonplace book: ten thousand things
- Franz Kafka” —whiskey rivers commonplace book: ten thousand things
“Doubt is a state of the suspension of both belief and disbelief: many people assume that thinking has only two positions, positive and negative, and if you doubt something you are disputing its validity or positing the contradictory position. This is disputation, not doubt. Doubt per se questions the form or content of what has been asserted but it itself is a freeform state of wondering what the general parameters of the issue are and how it most rationally ought to be framed.”
- Kenneth Smith” —whiskey rivers commonplace book: each one teach one
- Kenneth Smith” —whiskey rivers commonplace book: each one teach one
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog’s yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum’s scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother’s retreat. That only we love the only-we. That only we need the only-we.
That we feel lonely in a crowd; stop not to dwell on what’s brought the crowd into being. That we are, always, faces in a crowd.”
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest” —whiskey river
That we feel lonely in a crowd; stop not to dwell on what’s brought the crowd into being. That we are, always, faces in a crowd.”
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest” —whiskey river
“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.”
—~Tom Robbins (via iheartloons)
