In the land of the pure there can be no innovation, no false idols; only the same old hypocrisy that doesn't change year after year and the same whoring heart, faultlessly unfaithful to the last dregs. Nothing much holds the wall up. On that side wild growth and snakes; on this side decay and falsehood.
Ready to go...but where? Get the shots, the dope, then north by north-west and I'm out of here.
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Religion, you feel, would be quite a good thing if it wasn't for religious people.
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The centuries. Everything in Yourcenar's book is marked by the need to be understood against the background of time. Nothing could be further from the thoughts of the moderns (you suspect).
Evaluation, judgement, reflection...all that requires taking a step out of the stream. One can deny the flux or say there is only flux; alternatively, the third way suggests a way of accommodating oneself to it. The great line: 'nothing lasts forever, but I will always love you.'
Herzog's 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' and 'Ugetsu' (finally!) have been downloaded (er.. "bought").
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OH
is that an "oh" of surprise or an oh of disappointment ("oh no, not again!")? Or is it an oh of resignation ("oh, okay then") or an insightful oh: "oh, I see now"?
is it really oh at all or an abbreviation, or is this some word in the __ language?
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