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“Now my hand tested the boy. Knuckles drawn up, spider-like, I walked my fingers over the table in careful steps, not taking my eyes from his face.”
― Rusticles
― Rusticles
“Well, not just that. I’m looking for the exit, but I can’t find any exit signs. I had to go back down. There was no choice. But bad shit happened.”
― Sea of Glass
― Sea of Glass
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“I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman.
Homer Simpson”
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
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Glad to hear someone else has taken a non-conventional path with their writing... makes me feel less alone lol. Would be happy to check out anything you've written. What kind of stuff?
Not really sure how to answer the 'how long have you been writing question' lol. I've been writing lyrics for years but started a book when I was 17. Drugs exceeded and I ended up just using my skills for hip hop when I was drunk lol. Some stuff happened, so I went back to the book and finished it. Just finished the second one which will be out for Christmas and I am releasing a novella in October. Then i'll go back to hip hop for a bit, write an album, see how that goes... more for fun than anything though.
I just have to write.
Yeah, I love my dog. It was an impulse buy on a drunk night/morning in Vietnam. Cost me fortune to get back but is worth it.
Matt





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQHA..."
This would be perfect for the soundtrack to the Jem & the Holograms movie they keep threatening to make. Cheers :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQHA...


Ah, so you work in the oil and gas industry. Sounds like a mini adventure: not an average works outing. Have fun and let me know how the whole experience goes (poking green eyed monster in the eye, right now).


Thanks, man. How's Stavanger treating you? Getting all my old shit together (a lot was free hand) and will send you something soon. Hope Norway is tasting good.