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Charles de Gaulle, victor Hugo, viollet le duc, destruction from ww2 and restoration

For me it was important to be alone. Solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.

148 …reading he felt was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.

Willing: speaking from an opened bone

457 I try and avoid isolating myself but even so you often need to INSULATE yourself from what’s going on

364 it’s impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were

Watch gimme shelter movie

Almost dying driving with motorcycles and truck with missile

Open tuning with five strings

Gimme shelter about mick and Anita, recording big songs on a cassette thing that made the acoustic and toy instruments sound all crazy but they limit it now and it won’t work anymore

-drugs as pure, John Lennon turning green, leaving horizontally, barbiturates not the same, uk govt prescribing pure heroin pills to junkies and pure cocaine to balance it, junkie pets on line to pick up the prescriptions and resell immediately, knowing mick was laying Anita in some film by something cammell and being like ah well I was screwing marianne at the same time haha!

Laws of governable harvest- look up later

End of chapter 20- being a citizen of maple nation
What does being a good citizen mean
Citizenship- take up arms to defend against all enemies FUCK THAT

Ceremonies are a way to live awake in the world TAHAWUS

101 Sandro wanting to know things about her childhood- before she had become readably a person- becoming a fixed position to others and yourself, being locked inside your body

101 Sandro wanting to know things about her childhood- before she had become readably a person- becoming a fixed position to others and yourself, being locked inside your body

101 to be young is to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you

Gordon Matta Clark holes in buildings

Such good descriptions of the city- of light mixed with rain and fruit carts and crappy apartments and weird people

55 The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

49 what occurred that night did so because I was open to it and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place.

30 you have the luxury of time. You re young. Young people are doing something even when they’re doing nothing. A young woman is a conduit. All she has to do is exist. You have time. Meaning don’t use it but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit. Some people might consider this passivity but I did not. I considered it living

God needs the hermit in the woods as much as he needs the man in the pulpit

The moment of surrender: Jung- the things that made you successful in the first half of your life work against you in the second half.
It’s out strengths rather than weaknesses that hold us back
Perpetual longing to be filled with the extraordinary so that you begin to lose appreciation for the ordinary
So often the fight is not with the world but with yourself

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience

630 not many of the people who believe they’re inside really are, but many of the people who are outside, those are the ones who are inside, the first shall be last

626AND THE FAMILIAR VAN WORLD WITHIN WORLD

623 SEEING HIMSELF INSIDE THE MEMORY A CIRCLE

Everything chosen for him

588 married….

581 ales doesn’t like the blonde woman and runs into her all the time. Foreboding. A symbol?

Life is a constant dying and being reborn every day to overcome the number we’re given in the dna lotto life is about constant refreshment every day breaking away from the negative influences on nature or nurture
Bob Dylan: anyone who’s not busy being born is busy dying