new eyes
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)
wrapping stones
Paper wraps rock means that the power of truth and knowledge overcomes the power of deceit and ignorance.
powers and potencies
Between ”yes" and “no” are many potencies where “probably” and “possibly” combine.
a strange quarkiness
Ze who loves everything, loves nothing. And ze who loves nothing, loves nothing. The broken symmetry has a strange quarkiness to it.
a home for love
When you stand outside my thatched hut, Could you guess how spacious it is inside? There is a galaxy of worlds in here. And space for as much love as I can find. (Ishikawa Jozan (17th Century), from a Zen poem, Japan)
borrowing from children
The world was not left us by our parents, it was lent us by our children. (African proverb)
just looking
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Thurber 1894–1961 USA)
expressing despair
An informal but nevertheless accurate indicator of the health of a corporation's 'culture' and the morale of its employees is the amount of dried snot and sperm on the doors and walls of the men's toilets. The more, the unmerrier.
in vino veritas
In alcohol, sobriety. In madness, sanity. In truth, lies. In goodness, evil. Inside, out. As above, so below.
the soul of the species
The soul of the species is one, and individuals partake of it according to the measure of each; the greater the number of individuals, the smaller the portions.
journey to a destination
I am unreliably informed that finding out is half the fun. In which case, I shudder to think what all of the fun entails.
chain letter
True love is neither true nor love: it's both. False hate is neither false nor hate: it's both. Don't send me $50 and I'll explain what I mean.
unblocking the source
When all else fails, stream of consciousness is the last resort of the blocked writer. What then is the last resort of the blocked Creator?
the biggest venn diagram
The universe is at least as great as the sum of its parts, and some of those parts are pretty great.
insuring the evitable
Inevitability may never happen. But when it does not, then wilt it be said: "Carpal inexactitude intubates a paradigmatic cataclysm."
obstinate shape-shifting
The ancient parchment crumbled to dust. But the words remained ingrained upon his brain: "Tacit morphologies encourage obstinate shape-shifting".
the Evil in God
Q: How can I believe in God when good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people? A(i):God contains the good and the bad and does not value one over the other. A (ii) There is no absolute good and no absolute bad--the signifiers 'good' and 'bad' receive their meaning by virtue of position and context.
the blues
Why (and how) does the sound of music in a particular key (eg a minor) elicit a particular emotional response (eg sadness) in the listener? Is there a cultural aspect, ie, that the response varies from one culture to the next? Or not, as the case may be? And why does listening to the blues (not usually written or played in a minor key) make us feel blue?
some of the parts
Anything is always at least three things: itself, part of something else, and part of everything else.
Jehovah's jealousy reflects his insecurity
The God Jehovah's commandment to "...have no other gods before me..." clearly implies belief in the existence of other gods. Nowhere in the scriptures as far as I am aware is there an inarguable, explicit statement to the effect that there is only one god, and that there are not many gods.
unpaid and overdue fines
Words do not own the meaning they are said and thought to have; rather, they borrow meaning from outside language, and there always comes a time when the meaning on loan must be returned.
you can't say that again
My aim was to write an interesting post featuring the word 'syzygy' but as you can see I failed... wait a minute, how about: "oxen can not perform yoga nor indeed couple, being ball-less"? "Nah, I don't think so..."
Archetype-land
In Archetype-land, the little lambs were tripping through the golden-fielded daffo-meadows. The Dark Figure loomed enigmatically. The Wide-eyed Maiden shrilled her breathless delight. In Archetype-land.
different ways to snort snot
The white man, a colonialist, sipped a gin and topic. His manservant, an indigene, stood patiently awaiting orders. "You know," said the colonialist to the indigene, "you blacks have got some dirty habits. I will never understand how you people can just snort your snot onto the ground, and keep on walking." And we will never understand, thought the indigene, how you white men can snort your snot into little square cloths of white linen, which you keep in your pockets and use again and again and again.
dumb animals
Asked one dumb animal of another, "if people are so smart, how come they shit and piss in their own water, and rape the mother on whom all life depends?"
"Yes, it's quite paradoxical, isn't it?
The smarter you are, the less you understand," replied the second dumb animal.
sweet taste of fear
Once upon a time people hunted other people for food. And the faster they ran, the sweeter they tasted.