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25.01.2022 It is your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy yourself -Alan Watts-
23.01.2022 My favourite book is one I’ve given away more than any other book. It’s one of the lovely things you can do to a person; give them a book that you’ve enjoyed. And this is ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole. He committed suicide. Some people say it’s because he couldn’t get it published. But his mother had it published and it’s brilliant. Scarlet, my daughter, and I, we were sailing in the Pacific - you can’t hide the profits forever and I had A Confederacy of ...Dunces with me and I said to her, here, read this. She was in the next cabin to me and I was lying in bed with my wife and I could hear the laughing from Scarlet’s cabin, and I thought YES!! Another convert to the cause. There’s nothing nicer than laughing out loud at a book. It’s the ultimate talent, being able to jot something down and make a person laugh. It’s brilliant. -Billy Connolly on A Confederacy of Dunces- Bless you Thelma Toole for bringing your son’s talent to the world, as overwhelmingly painstaking as that task must have been, can never thank you enough #RUOK #ConfederacyofDunces
23.01.2022 God this looks epic. Thank the universe for Denis Villeneuve.
23.01.2022 Happy people practise gratitude. Sad people practise envy. You get the superpower of choosing how you feel when you realise it’s always you who ultimately decides how you think.
23.01.2022 Wherever you’re going, whatever you’re doing, stroll, like a man in a park without a care in the world. You’ll see what’s really going on, all the nooks and beautiful crannies the rat racers will never know about. You’ll live well. Stroll, always stroll.
22.01.2022 Before blaming youthful students for their bad judgement, let it be remembered the case of the Parisian art critics who went into rhapsodies over a picture which was afterwards discovered to have been painted by a donkey with a paint-brush tied to its tail. -The Collected Essays of George Orwell- No one on earth is more ridiculous than an art critic. Love your work Donkey
21.01.2022 Thanks google, makes sense, that extra l makes a world of difference. A thoroughly enthralling explanation
21.01.2022 When asked, ‘Which is the wisest of the animals?’ a Japanese sage replied, ‘The one that man has not yet discovered.’
18.01.2022 If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance. -Meditations, Marcus Aurelius-
16.01.2022 I know what you have to experience before you die: let me tell you. What you have to experience before you die is a driving rain transformed into light. -The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery- This is the greatest book ever written and yes, I am including Slippery and Sweet Dreams of Fanta in that thorough assessment. This is pure joy, heartbreak and linguistic perfection every sentence of the way, nothing on earth more elegant than the nothing even comes close.
16.01.2022 The Buk would have turned 100 a couple weeks back but a man that gorgeous was never destined to live to 3 figures. 73 seems quite amazing even. I’m not sure his life was particularly rosy, but his words sure were. What a bless
15.01.2022 You wanna be a writer, write www.capebardo.com
15.01.2022 "Like Stories of Old" is a phenomenal YouTube channel (well worth a subscribe) devoted to the analysis of film and cinematic storytelling's interplay with human psychology. There is perhaps no subject matter more prone to creating intensely powerful emotion in a viewer than war. If you'd like to explore more deeply how the most incredible war films impact us, this is well worth a watch.
11.01.2022 "As for his work, he makes it excellent: as for his lot, he is convinced it is good. And each person’s lot is both his fellow-passenger and his driver. " -Meditations, Marcus Aurelius- Whatever you choose to do, do it to the very best of your ability. And whatever situation you should happen to find yourself in, know that it's a far more enjoyable place to be if you choose to simply embrace it as good in the first place.
10.01.2022 Parasite is a masterpiece. No question. But what makes it so compelling is what makes it so sad, the way the parasites compete with each other, the poor fighting the poorer, all done with the backdrop of the filthy rich house and layers upon layers of seemingly wonderful human beings lying to each other constantly and with zero remorse. Amazing stuff. #Parasite
10.01.2022 There is infinite treasure in literature, vast wealth which the diamond worshippers will never comprehend. #readreadreadreadread
10.01.2022 ‘The true artist has always had to fight, but it is, and will be, a more ferocious struggle for you, and the artists of your generation, than ever before. The working man, this time, will be better looked after, he will be flattered by the press and bribed with Beveridge schemes, because he possesses a plurality of votes. But who will care for you or your fate, who will trouble to defend the cause of the young writer, painter, sculptor, musician? And what inspiration will you... be offered when theatre, ballet, concert-hall lie in ruins, and, owing to the break in training, there are no great executant artists for several decades? Above all, do not underestimate the amount and intensity of genuine ill-will that people will feel for you; not the working man, for though not highly educated he has a mild respect for the arts and no preconceived notions, not the few remaining patricians, but the vast army between, the fat middle classes and the little men. And here I must make special mention of the civil servant as enemyAt the best, you will be ground down between the small but powerful authoritarian minority of art directors, museum racketeers, the chic, giggling modistes who write on art and literature, publishers, journalists and dons (who will, to do them justice, try to help you, if you will write as they tell you) and the enormous remainder who would not mind, who would be indeed pleased, if they saw you starve. For we English are unique in that, albeit an art-producing nation, we are not an art-loving one. In the past the arts depended on a small number of very rich patrons. The enclave they formed has never been re-established. The very name ‘art-lover’ stinksThe privileges you hold today, then, as an artist, are those of Ishmael, the hand of every man is against you. Remember, therefore, that outcasts must never be afraid.’ - A Letter to My Son, Sir Osbert Sitwell’- #OutcastsMustNeverBeAfraid See more
09.01.2022 ‘One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!’ -Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot-
09.01.2022 Writers are made, not born. To be exact, writers are self-made. -Ayn Rand- You want to be a writer? Write! Nothing in this world is more straightforward and yet nothing in this world seems more capable of spawning legions of pretenders to crap on constantly about their aspirational writing plans and all the wondrous books inside them just gagging to get out. If you really want to write, get to work! You make yourself a writer. No one can stop you but you alone.
06.01.2022 ‘What’s new?’ is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question ‘What is best?’, a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. -Robert M. Pirsig, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- What’s best? is a question well worth asking yourself, and well worth thinking seriously about if you’re keen on having a quality time on the pale blue dot.
06.01.2022 Every now and then you get some hoods who start hollering that the swords are faked, the captain explained. The best way to handle those gees is to swallow a sword with a sharp point on it. Then you bring the sword up and throw it at the hoods. When they jump out of the way, the sword hits the spot where they were standing and sinks into the ground half-way up to the hilt. Makes a very good effect. Suppose they don’t jump in time? I wanted to know. Then they get hit, ...said the captain simply. -Step Right Up! Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, Daniel P. Mannix- From the author of Those About to Die upon which Gladiator is based, as well as The Wolves of Paris, a non-fiction recount of the wolves who very nearly did conquer Paris in the 18th century, this memoir is solid gold for anyone intrigued by the goings on of carny life with 5 legged horses, human pincushions, giant fat ladies and, of course, sword swallowers. Daniel P. Mannix is a true wild man, in this world to experience everything it has to offer; the good, the bad, and the utterly grotesque. See more
06.01.2022 Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced that your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell. -Meditations, Marcus Aurelius- There’s nothing quite as dangerous to you as vanity, especially, as Kenneth Cook in Wake in Fright would say, A vanity spawned by fear. #VanityCity
05.01.2022 You are a soul carrying a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. -Meditations, Marcus Aurelius- Some people’s souls shine brighter, no matter where their flesh is stationed on the journey from beginning to corpse.
04.01.2022 So many knuckleheads nowadays, all saying so many knuckleheaded things. Hit refresh. Watch the master. See that the legends are true, it’s possible to have a golden voice, a razor wit, supreme humility and never once grow irritated with an irritating interviewer. 4 years without you Leonard Cohen, The Godfather of Gloom as so many knuckleheads wrongly named you, funniest bloke around, more uplifting than all the gloom everywhere else ... https://youtu.be/IgTV0mEoiWU
03.01.2022 This is a fascinating article and, as a scribbler and lover of language first and foremost, what strikes me as monumental is the idea that three Swedish words have the capacity to shape and sculpt an entire nation's psyche with such vigour as to empower them to stand firm against global pressure and vicious smear campaigns and fight the pandemic on their own terms. Those three words: 1/ "Njuta" which roughly means "enjoy" but more truthfully means "to give praise for the gif...ts of creation" 2/ "Allemansratt" which means "Everyone's RIGHT to roam" 3/ "Lagom" which means "just so" but more truthfully, "Neither too much nor too little." What this article paints is the picture of a nation that takes these words and the profound concepts they represent very, very seriously, and the Swedish people are able to guide all manner of moral and civil ideas from that fundamental linguistic basis. It's enough to bring a tear to a devoted linguist's eye. And I've long since given up trying to convince people that if they dedicate themselves to learning foreign languages - just one foreign language is enough, sheesh, sorry, getting crazy here - that their lives become so much richer for it, but it is indeed hard work and time consuming, two things which are hard to sell alone, let alone as a pair. But hopefully after reading this article and its implications you can start to appreciate that, more so than I've found in English, foreign languages seem so often to have these one-off words that are so profound you could almost form a religion from the word alone. Pretty cool stuff. And even though you can't necessarily change the English language to be anywhere near as comprehensive in one word reach, you can start to better understand your global neighbours. And if you want to hate on Sweden for supposedly being a pack of granny killers, cool, enjoy that masked air you're being forced to breathe because someone said so and you were able to switch off every skerrick of mental capacity to pursue the idea further. Bless. Eternal Lockdown is enabled thanks to wonderful and courageous people like you. https://unherd.com//why-sweden-is-different-when-it-comes/
02.01.2022 When the sun slipped below the horizon, it was not only the day that died and the poor zebra, but my family as well. With that second sunset, disbelief gave way to pain and grief. They were dead; I could no longer deny it. What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. -Life of Pi, Yann Martel-
02.01.2022 8yr olds are brutal, and correct
01.01.2022 When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn’t doing the same thing. #FoolsParadise
