"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."
--Chapter 15, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
La Jetée (1962)
I watched this two years ago and it did not invoke the same effect it did for me today upon my second viewing. It gave me unbelievable chills.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
excerpt - The Rum Diary
She laughed. "It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now."
"Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.
--Chapter Five, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
"Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.
--Chapter Five, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
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