A face in glass, how do you decide fire
A petal crushed to make way for my heart
People hide behind the façade of acceptability
Egypt did not give up its princesses; this was weakness
Language is history: a word here, a word there
1/ Elizabethan age - religious zeal put brother against brother 2/ The flame is an expression of confusion 3/ Psychology. It's all in the head, innit? 4/ I look at them: they'll all be first to put the second boot in. No cojones. Not like their 'leader'. What do they call themselves now, 'boss'? Didn't really have gangs, too much self-respect. 5/ She came out of the blue. She couldn't have come from anywhere else. 6/ Perhaps, being closer to the last day of truth he was better able to see it as it was; unlike we, far removed from it. 7/ A port. Where people come and go. All the time. An important refuelling stop. What makes you think everyone wants to fly in straight lines: a to b, b to e, etc? Still, it's not as if they don't but that's a different matter. Fuel - thermodynamic energy stolen/used more appropriately from the sun. 8/ Plato's 'Republic' seen as elitist, but you can't have a ruling class without an elite however you wish to portray them: one makes decisions that are carried out and benefits from this/by this by remaining in power; with the trappings of power. Plato's elite were, at least, Spartan in their comforts were they not? And what about the elite of ideas? I teach this because it is what I want to believe and privilege, but not the other (in a way that gives it equal standing). 9/ Who knows? If a man gets to thinking - he might just turn Greek. 10/ I've lived the dead life, 23 hours a day; easy, easy. 11/
"To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful". Jung. 12/ The ideal woman is a mother, daughter, sister, lover, confidante, friend, fantasy. 13/ "What has God to do with business?" "What has he ever had to do with it?" 14/ How long does it take for an idea to come to fruition? 50? 100 years? And then? Then it only leads to more unanswered questions. 15/ Remoteness breeds (a desire for) mysticism. 16/ They're all me; but I'm not. 17/ Ringmaster/Whoremaster/Slave Driver. He was a man of too few talents and never enough wants. 18/ It's like you have the whole store of the world's beauty crammed neatly inside you. 19/ She's not perfect: she's not transient. 20/ I think even the dullest man would tire of his immortality eventually. 21/ The most well-rounded person is not one, but many. 22/ She's not a heartbreaker; well not of real people, only fools. And they're broken anyway. 23/ Add me to your list of conquests. A woman's gotta have a list of conquests. 24/ The only reason so many artists find fame posthumously is cause it's cheaper to (not) pay the dead. 25/ That faraway look where there's nothing but the object of his affections. 26/ The balm to my splintered life. 27/ Think about what he's giving you other than a 1-way ticket down an endless tunnel. 28/ Time and tide never leave great men alone: always pushing forward some antagonist to snap at their heels. 29/ As men of science and learning retreat to their towers, so ignorance sweeps in behind. 30/ Start with a lie, finish with a lie. And in between? All the jam you can eat! 31/ If you start with a lie so much is already tainted; even before you know it. 32/
"The ability for generalisation only the inexperienced can have" (Steinbeck) 33/ Has it changed him? No, but he's not the same. 34/ And he'd been taken to the country, but his mother had screamed "Oh! A bee! Bees are nasty!" whenever one had come near him. And so he'd never really been to the country at all. 35/ To a man, the right girl makes all the difference. 36/ I carry loneliness around with me in my backpack. It's charity: no-one else'll have him and it's not fair to leave him on his own. 37/ There's money to be made out of weakness; not much else though. 38/ "We can be lonely together," she said, and he knew it was true. 39/ "He's dyin'. Got mebbe 15 years left in him." "Dying? That's not dying!" "It is when you're him". 40/ I'm a businessman: I manage the variables in my favour. 41/ She's a biter. - Of nails, anyway. 42/ "How often do you change your bedclothes?" Isn't it funny how so many of the wrong conversations start with a question? But those that don't start with a question - well, they're even worse. 43/ Wisdom might come in many colours but there's still a finite amount of the stuff. 44/ All men have a passion for politics; some just never exercise it. 45/ You call wisdom repeating your forefathers' words at opportune moments. If so, then I shall never know it; but you shall never know aught. 46/ People are simple: they do you ill because they mean you ill. 47/ We seek to address yesterday's problems tomorrow. No wonder we never do. 48/ "S'funny, ain't it? How a man can know someone without ever havin' met 'em." 49/ He carries his cares under his eyes. 50/ Like Paul, you see what you like in the words of dead men (a biblical one!!!) 51/ 'No.' Do you know how many meanings that word has? Only one. But that one can mean everything. And after that, what need is there for any more? 52/ Understanding is a sorrowful place, stark but revealing in its poignancy. 53/ Wisdom is limited to our capacity to do wrong.
