Jake McAtee > Recent Status Updates

Good.

The “romantic” relationship with Sue is overblown.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.

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"The very strangeness of the language dyd me enchante, and vaulted me into an ancient scene." - John Steinbeck on Mallory's Morte d'Arthur

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests a kaleidoscope, a number of combinations that generate one another at an accelerating pace.”

"He who had gone a beast
Down on his knees and hands
Remembering lust and murder
Felt now a gust of grace,
Lifted his burnished face
From the psalter of the sands
And I found his thoughts in order
And cleared his throat at last."

"A society which doesn't burn witches is the exception."

"A society which doesn't burn witches is the exception. In order to invent science, in my view, you have to stop burning witches first."

"A society which doesn't burn witches is the exception. In order to invent science, in my view, you have to stop burning witches first."

" . . . poor people are oppressed; the indignant are persecuted; also the sick, the crippled, and the plague-ridden, and so forth, but great leaders are too . . . In a way the great leader is a the center, but the center is somewhat like the eye of a cyclone. It is a quiet center, and when trouble enters, the system tends to collapse and reform around a victim."

On the Undead -

Nevertheless, their pain is real,
And requires our pity. Think how sad it must be
To thirst always for a scorned elixir,
The salt quotidian blood

Which, if mistrusted, has no savour;
To prey on life forever and not possess it,
As rock-hollows, tide after tide,
Glassily strand the sea.

For My Ambitious Colleague:

Your uphill climb will never stop;
scum always rises to the top.

“All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain; preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.”