This Is So Cool I Had It Bookmarked (and Copied)
April 8, 2007
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is unavoidability in this process. It;s not even coincidence. It’s just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.” – Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
"Democracy on Paper"
November 2, 2006
“You could tell plenty about someone from the places they’d have chosen to visit, and which of those places were their favorites… I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I’d felt instantly at home.” – Richard, The Beach by Alex Garland
bagong pag-ibig
August 17, 2005
Sa Death The Time of Your Life, winika ng bidang si Foxglove ang mga katagang: “The whole of art – maybe the whole of life is just spray – painting your name on a wall, hoping that someone will see it after you have gone. And kids are to make sure there’s someone who’ll remember you when you are not around anymore.”
bitterism
July 14, 2005
I have read George Orwell’s Animal Farm again last weekend.
Old Major said to the Manor Farm animals in the story: “Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
While our version is “Man’s life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (SOSC 2)
einstein’s dreams
June 13, 2005
Synopsis of Einstein’s Dreamshttp://www.english.uwosh.edu/einstein/einsteinsdreams.html
14 April 1905 (8)Time is a circle; individual experience endlessly repeats itself
16 April 1905(13)Time is like a flow of water, sometimes moving backward
19 April 1905 (18)Time has three dimensions; each act has three possible outcomes
24 April 1905 (23)There are two times, mechanical and body
26 April 1905 (28)Time flows more slowly the farther one is from the center of the earth
28 April 1905 (33)Time is absolute, an infinite ruler
3 May 1905 (38)Cause and effect are erratic; at times effect precedes cause
4 May 1905 (43)Time passes, but little happens
8 May 1905 (55)Time is captured in its last moments, the end of the world
10 May 1905 (61)Those trapped in time are alone, and no one is happy
11 May 1905 (66)The passage of time brings increasing order
14 May 1905 (70)Time stands still
15 May 1905 (75)There is no time; there are only images
20 May 1905 (80)People have no memories
22 May 1905 (85)The world is a world of changed plans, leaving many things incomplete
29 May 1905 (90)Time passes slowly for people in motion, thus everything moves
2 June 1905 (102)Time flows backward
3 June 1905 (107)People live just one day, but that day may be an eternity
5 June 1905 (112)Time is a sense like taste
9 June 1905 (117)People live forever, dividing into two populations: Laters and Nows
10 June 1905 (123)Time cannot be measured; it is a quality
11 June 1905 (128)There is no future; time is a line that terminates at the present
15 June 1905 (133)Time is visible; one can step into the future or remain in the present
17 June 1905 (138)Time is discontinuous, containing gaps and pauses
18 June 1905 (148)There is a Great Clock in the Temple of Time
20 June 1905 (153)Time is local; clocks separated by distance tick at different rates
22 June 1905 (159)Time is rigid; every action and thought is determined
25 June 1905 (163)Time and event may be copied infinitely with different futures
27 June 1905 (167)In a world of shifting pasts, the past may be firm or forgotten
28 June 1905 (172)Time is a nightingale, fluttering and flying, pursued by those who would stop time in a bell jar
we, the living
May 25, 2005
may 25. wednesday.
“if you learn how to rule one single man’s soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It’s the soul, Peter, the soul. Not whips or swords or fire or guns. That’s why the Caesars, the Attilas, the Napoleons were fools and did not last. We will. The soul. Peter, is that which can’t be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it – and the man is yours… There are many ways. Here’s one. Make man feel small. Make him feel guilty. Kill his aspiration and integrity… Preach selflessness. Tell man that he must live for others. Tell man that altruism is the ideal…Kill man’s self of values. Kill his capacity to recognize greatness or to achieve it. Great men can”t be ruled..Don’t allow men to be happy. Happiness is self contained and self sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. So kill their joy in living… ” – Ellsworth Toohey in the ‘The Fountainhead’.
