"Let's get this porcupine on the street." T. Robbins
I've been reading Tom Robbins' Still Life With Woodpecker. It's one of the most entertaining, and curiously insightful, books that I've read in a long,long time. I've been scribbling down quotes along the way. This one's for laughing_tree...
"Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning. Does that mean that chain smokers are religious fanatics? You must admit there's a similarity. The lung of the smoker is a naked virgin thrown as a sacrifice into the godfire." - Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
A rather romanticized description of something none of us should do, but it definitely struck a chord with me. I still think smoking is a bad habit and will domy damndest to quit when, or perhaps before, I go 'home', but the dragon in me has a thing for puffs of smoke swirling out of my mouth. So it goes ...
"Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning. Does that mean that chain smokers are religious fanatics? You must admit there's a similarity. The lung of the smoker is a naked virgin thrown as a sacrifice into the godfire." - Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
A rather romanticized description of something none of us should do, but it definitely struck a chord with me. I still think smoking is a bad habit and will domy damndest to quit when, or perhaps before, I go 'home', but the dragon in me has a thing for puffs of smoke swirling out of my mouth. So it goes ...