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Pseudo-Socratics, ad infinitum.

Pseudo-Socratics, ad infinitum.

As an archivist of eclectica, I like to flood my mind with delightful musings, roving ruminations, and a sundry and playful effluvia of light, sound, and movement, and then see what happens.

Raison d'etre: It is important never to forget that, even given the most prohibiting odds, one is always free to think extravagantly, dangerously, and with all the gracious aplomb inherent to one possessing a free mind.

I dwell in possibility (hat tip, Emily Dickinson), and I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time (ditto, Moondog.) I believe "-isms" are fun, but "is" is better. The jazz age, space age, metaphysics - in thought and in verse - the same as for form/matter, essence/existence, and dance, space, time, space-time, movement, et al. all serve to inform and inspire me.

Culture is human, but camp is sublime.

The Greek lyric poet Sappho once wrote, "I could not hope to touch the sky with my two arms." I am glad that this is so, because it admits reason to explore with the mind what is inaccessible to the scope of the other senses, and in the distance between the view from here and that which transcends its reach, there is room enough for wonder, the best exaltation I know.

For this, I rarely find reason to stifle curiosity of any kind - the better to aid discovery, my dear.

“But in contentment I still feel
The need of some imperishable bliss.”
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning"

"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead." - Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…

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nevver:

Where are you?

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“my cats” by Charles Bukowski

_{I know. I know.
they are limited, have different
needs and
concerns.

but I watch and learn from them.
I like the little they know,
which is so
much.

they complain but never
worry,
they walk with a surprising dignity.
they sleep with a direct simplicity that
humans just can’t
understand.

their eyes are more
beautiful than our eyes.
and they can sleep 20 hours
a day
without
hesitation or
remorse.

when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.

I study these
creatures.

they are my
teachers.}

(via feral-conviviality)

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nevver:

The Nietzsche Family Circus

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Stop

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“God, it looks so archaic,” she said. — Leonard Cohen

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The Last Days of Disco

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Tambourine Man

Tagged: tambourine man Black and White photography

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Calvin and Hobbes

Tagged: Calvin and Hobbes school learning

Posted on April 23, 2012 via this isn't happiness. with 1,705 notes

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The New Yorker

Tagged: cats new yorker cartoon

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Little Dreams, Big Bookcase

Tagged: books reading writing

Posted on April 22, 2012 via this isn't happiness. with 715 notes

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Good Heavens!

Tagged: vintage comics gorilla

Posted on April 20, 2012 via this isn't happiness. with 176 notes

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Robert Montgomery - London, UK Street Artist

Tagged: street art installation art billboard signage

Posted on April 20, 2012 with 62 notes

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tamburina:

Marjorie Miller, Queen of the Night, 1931.

(via lostintherenaissance)

Posted on April 19, 2012

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