djdojo said...
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that layed him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains (Paul Simon)
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion,
Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil.
Good is the passive that obeys Reason.
Evil is the active springing from Energy. (William Blake)
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible. (Carl Jung)
Brendan , like your work,(and admittedly i had to look my quotes up ) but Paul Simon?? I won't tell anyone about your REO Speedwagon/ Michael Bolton albums either...
Cheers mate
"Ban the drips",.....No way let 'em special gift away .Maybe we should have an unrestricted free for all thread ,(over 18's [hang on, that's a restriction] ) ....., I was hoping RSC was going to make a comeback
"He came home from the war ,with a party in his head and an idea for a fireworks display"
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones
"Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Rum Diary)
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
