David Jones's Blog, page 1387

Semi-DetachedOpen up wide it's a brand new day,But they've got...

Semi-Detached

Open up wide it's a brand new day,

But they've got you in prison,

And here you will stay,

So you will not dare do

What they wouldn't do.

Never reach for the sky,

Never run for the lights,

Cos they want you all battered,

And warped into shape,

So your subdued and flattened,

Under the wheel.

Is this all there is,

Is this how we end?

Is this all there is,

Is this how we end?

We'll cure you up healthy,

Keep you fit for the herds

Say 'how are you feeling,

You better today?'

But they only hear the...

The best and only way to deal with a bear.

The best and only way to deal with a bear.

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The Wendigo About Town

The Wendigo about town feasts

Not on the flesh of its brothers,

Who stalk the jungle mind,

But on the hopes of the city folks.

Diffuse, it is

An abstract concept.

Some dub it money or marriage or fear -

Or even "Love" some say - 

But it is the Wendigo about town,

And lives it steals, but does not take.

It gluts itself upon who they could have been.

Hidden within aging, it waits -

For the young are too quick,

Its claws they evade,

So that in every clock it dwells

And speaks the tick of aging. 

Concealed...

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"All in all it was just bricks in the wall"

""All in all it was just bricks in the wall""

- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall

Is writing being "normalised"?

This question came to mind when I was reading War and Peace. One of my favourite novels of all time, and probably the greatest literary work of all time, I realised that Tolstoy's masterpiece would never have been published today. Not a chance. No literary agent would be interested in anything that stretches to 1000+ pages, on paper the work lacks mass market appeal and, on an even more basic level, Tolstoy would have been utterly unable to squash the plot of his novel into the standard one p...

Stunning.

Stunning.

May get onto this Vblogging business.

Seems like a fun thing to do - and ranting incoherently on video is something I would probably be good at. Now need to think of some topics..

I feel like cats understand people so much. Not words, but feelings and thoughts - they can sense everything about you, I'm sure of it.