Duke it

"And you know I think it was Plato, I’m not sure he said it first, it was 'If God does not exist, human beings will create God'. I think the truth is that they’re not even going to wait to find out, its easier to cut to the technical solution and sort the whole thing out later. If the God we make and the God we find are in conflict with each other they’ll just have to duke it out."

-T.M.

Pope

"Nature to all things fix'd the Limits fit,
And wisely curb'd proud Man's pretending Wit:
As on the Land while here the Ocean gains,
In other Parts it leaves wide sandy Plains;
Thus in the Soul while Memory prevails,
The solid Pow'r of Understanding fails;
Where Beams of warm Imagination play,
The Memory's soft Figures melt away.
One Science only will one Genius fit;
So vast is Art, so narrow Human Wit;
Not only bounded to peculiar Arts,
But oft in those, confin'd to single Parts.
Like Kings we lose the Conquests gain'd before,
By vain Ambition still to make them more:
Each might his sev'ral Province well command,
Wou'd all but stoop to what they understand."

Excerpt from An Essay On Criticism
"Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd,
We hang one jingling padlock on the mind"

The Dunciad

Happy new year.

You are our paranoid for the day!

"Institutions have done us about all the good we can stand."

Minds are what brains do.

Whitland (and Zappa)

If you're in the audience and like what we do...
We'd like you to know that we like you all too...

But as for the sucker that writes the review...

...if his mind is prehensile (mind is prehensile!),

he'll put down his pencil (put down his pencil!),

and have himself a squat on the cosmic utensil! (Cosmic utensil!)

...go on, give it all you got on the cosmic utensil! (Cosmic utensil!)

...sit and spin until you rot on the cosmic utensil! (Cosmic utensil!)

...man he really needs to squat on the cosmic utensil! (Cosmic utensil!)

Bede & Vicky & OK-Jazz

"The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed."

“No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes….Part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could have happened any time, and it is going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do."

Keith Haring

Layers

Sinking through the flaw

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."- Timothy Leary

Fordian Tip

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