"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
- Franz Kafka

susan: so, what are your impressions of england?
ravi: susan, it's nudity, pure nudity all the time here.
(he moves towards her)
susan: what's the matter?
ravi: susan, you are so kind
susan: ravi.
ravi: you're so lovely. susan, i am indian.
susan: yes.
ravi: you are english, please - undress!
susan: ravi!
ravi: i just wanted to touch your lovely ( Read more... )

to j,
"faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. it's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason. our yearning to discard that, and put all our trust or faith in someone or something - that is the sinister thing to me. ( Read more... )

friday's love affair: maneater. (eurhythmics eat your heart out)
oh, my own pirate-whore,
i love you so.

hush now, my darling lill cold, hard, pluto.
you'll always rock my solar system.

lick-itty, lick. better dwarf than hobbit. lick-itty lick, lick.

friday's love affair: i'm happy but you don't like me

friday's love affair:

bleached blonde girl with black roots in conversation with a broad shouldered islander boy, on the train ( Read more... )

if you are wondering about the legal dimensions of the current (horrific) hostilities between israel & hezbollah, the human rights watch has provided a helpful questions & answers page. it's a lill dated -- the number listed as dead gives you a fair idea of its age -- but otherwise relevant.

friday's love affair:
surly smiles exchanged between an older man in cufflinks and a young man in a red vest when each realised that the other was staring at the same thing -- up the long, long legs of a lithe limbed school girl in a green and white chequered skirt.

an extract from a US National Park regulation:

50.10 General injury. No person shall prune, cut, carry away, pull up, dig, fell, bore, chop, saw, chip, pick, move, sever, climb, molest, take, break, deface, destroy, set fire to, burn, scorch, carve, paint, mark, or in any manner interfere with, tamper, mutilate, misuse, disturb or damage any tree ( Read more... )