April 2010
12 posts
The Quiet World, by Jeffrey McDaniel
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover,...
“The deepest feeling of what’s lacking is the feeling of being incomplete,...”
– Art Ticknor, Solid Ground of Being
Thank you for the rain. No one can tell I’ve been crying.
After Tomas had returned to Prague from Zurich, he began to feel uneasy at the thought that his acquaintance with Tereza was the result of six improbable fortuities.
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything...
“As lonely as I find single life, I obviously prefer, on some level, the notion...”
– Jennifer Senior (from the Harrad Experiment)
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams...”
– Shakespeare (via pneuma)
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems...”
– Gilda Radner, actress and comedian (1946-1989)
I just enabled showing avatars of who posted what in your Tumblr Dashboard for this blog. Now you followers can also follow our disagreement. Instead of this blog seeming bipolar, now you can see that each of us is insane in a consistent way — i.e. consistently insane.
Sharing is caring, kisses don't deplete
In Europe, people, no strangers, are just more.. como se dice cariñoso.. affectionate I believe. In Spain you give 2 kisses, one on each cheek, any/every girl to girl and girl to guy. In Holland they give 3 as the greeting. When I met up with some American friends in Rome I felt the urge to lean in to give the habitual pecks and then awkwardly backed off, remembering that the cold handshake or...
Does a hug mean nothing to you?
People seem to give away hugs left and right. Peace. Love. More hugs. Great, right?
But when something is common, it means less. Any one hug isn’t that special if I’m hugging every person I know every chance there is.
An embrace can be very intimate. Especially when it’s the closest you can physically come to a person. With many people, a kiss for example, is simply...
If you have a burning desire, you've found...
Why? When you satisfy a desire, it goes away. But answering a question only leads to more questions.