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"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
The great cusp—green equinox and turning, dreaming fishes to young ram, watersleep to firewaking, bears down on us.
“Now all my teachers are dead except silence. —W.S. Merwin”
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
“Avendesora,” Moiraine murmured, resting her hand on a trefoil leaf in the stonework. Rand scanned the carving; that was the only leaf of its kind he could find. “The leaf of the Tree of Life is the key,” the Aes Sedai said, and the leaf came away in her hand.”
― The Eye of the World
― The Eye of the World
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“مهما كانت الديانة التى بيدها مقاليد الأمور، فسوف تتفتق دائماً وأبداً عن لاتسامح. وسيولد من رحمها محاكم التفتيش وتخرج علينا أعضاء طالبان.”
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“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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