March 2012
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February 2012
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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via littlefoxpaws)
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“The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite to...”
– Olivier Messiaen, preface to the Quartet for the End of Time (1941), description of the third movement “Abyss of the Birds”
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“Let’s go swimming in the womb of nothingness, where our conversations can fit...”
– Chuang Tzu (via amor-omnibus)
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“The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of...”
– Aldous Huxley (via levantine-chant)
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XIII
25 February, 2012 An eternal fire burns within the human spirit; like moths we are attracted to its tunneling light—and so we search, we search. We search until we find in our hands the proverbial wooden hammer and with it build towards the all-seeing sky, looking for the mountain peak that cannot not exist, that will exist, that must exist. And so we reach the zenith. We stand there, peering down...
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My lucid dreams are progressively coming more often. About eight days ago, I practiced piano during lucidity. Last night I had two lucid dreams. I cannot remember the first dream because I neglected to write it down when I awoke, but I still remember my second dream clearly:
When I obtained lucidity, I chose to test my ability to fly. I ascended to the fifth floor of the building I was in (it...
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“But what could be more comforting than to discover that we are less than...”
– René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)
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“No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in...”
– René Crevel
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Lately, more than ever before, I’ve been noticing and listening to bird calls. I’ve had the idea in the back of my head for two days now that I might learn the names of the different types of birds in the area and learn to recognize them by their bird calls.
