Dauntless Douglas

If you've got a problem with immigrant workers, you've got a problem with John Steinbeck, and if you've got a problem with John Steinbeck, you've got a problem with me.
Zardoz: "The gun is good."
Exterminators: "The gun is good."
Zardoz: "The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!"
Nihil verus, omnia permissa.
He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
- Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian
"You know, vasectomies are reversible."
"Goddamn yuppies get everything..."
----American Splendor
How would I describe myself? Three words -- hard working, alpha male, jackhammer, merciless, insatiable,...
- Dwight Schrute
Peace and Humptiness forever
"All countries are basically social arrangements... No matter how permanent or even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary... Perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all... But it has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government."
- Strobe Talbott
Aliquando facio versus mille cito
et tunc nulli cederem versuum perito
sed post tempus modicum cerebro sopito
versus a me fugiunt carminis oblito.
----------- the Archpoet
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
--------------Sonja, Love and Death
Illi qui non possunt docent, et qui non docent, docent gymnasium.
-------------Anon.
Eu quero ser sempre aquilo com quem simpatizo....
Sentir tudo de todas as maneiras,
Ter todas as opiniões,
Ser sincero contradizendo-se a cada minuto...
I always want to be the thing I feel kinship with....
To feel everything in every way,
To hold all opinions,
To be sincere contradicting oneself every minute...
-------Alvaro de Campos (or is it Fernando Pessoa), Passagem das Horas
I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.
------------ Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
"I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved."
---------- Warren G. Harding
There I went, one day, walking down the country road to my shack, looking forward to 8 hours of writing, in total isolation from all other humans, and I looked up at the sky and saw a face. I did not really see it, but the face was there, and it was not a human face; it was a vast visage of perfect evil. I realize now (and I think I dimly realized at the time) what caused me to see it: the months of isolation, of deprivation of human contact, in fact sensory deprivation as such... anyhow the visage could not be denied. It was immense; it filled a quarter of the sky. It had empty slots for eyes -- it was metal and cruel and, worst of all, it was God.
------------------------- Philip K. Dick
But know I now that twenty masonry centuries of sleep bring annoyed to nightmare for a cradle which, and that the harsh hanging-post truss, its hour in last come round slouches to charge Bethlehem in balance?
----- Yeats thrice via Babelfish