December 2008
“I don’t want to put you in a cage, I want to love you.”
– Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Barn's Burnt Down
Barn’s burnt down — now I can see the moon.
-Mizuta Masahide
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via moniekh) (via apologies) (via sleepanddream) (via lovebot) (via skysignal) (via hey-insomia) (via unicornology) (via hellonevada)
“We each must become like fishermen, and go out onto the dark ocean of mind, and...”
– Terence McKenna
“If you can’t be merciful, at least be bold.”
– “At the Arraignment” Debra Spencer
The Goose
Do you want to know why I am alive today? I will tell you. Early on, during the food-shortage, Some of us were miraculously presented Each with a goose that laid a golden egg. Myself, I killed the cackling thing and I ate it. Alas, many and many of the other recipients Died of gold-dust poisoning.
-Muriel Spark
“Father Carlo”
Hopes dimmed on Wednesday for a priest who vanished after sailing into the air under hundreds of colorful balloons. The priest has been missing since Sunday, when he lifted off from Paranagua wearing a helmet, an aluminum thermal flight suit, waterproof coveralls, and a parachute. Rescuers in boats, planes and helicopters continued to search off Brazil”s southern coast, near where a cluster of...