Tag: quotes

  • Salinger quote

    “Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

    — Franny in Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

  • Cath Dédenach Maige Tuired, “The Last Battle of Mag Tuired”

    Below is a partial translation of the Irish War Goddess Badb’s delivered prophecy after the defeat at Mag Tuired of the Fomorians by the Tuatha Dé Danann. She augers the eventual end of the world, “foretelling every evil that would be therein, and every disease and every vengeance.”

    [translation: celt.ucc.ie]

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  • Useless

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    I re-opened a blog site from ancient history (2007-2008) and made it public again because one of my new readers requested access to what had been marked a private blog (or maybe not, but it is back “live” regardless).

    It is just a catalog of quotes and poetry that caught my fancy, namely of a Taoism or Zen Buddhism bent. There’s nothing terribly exciting there unless you are into those kinds of things, or if you want a peek into where my mind was about a year before I ended up choosing sobriety as a more enlightened path than wonton drunkenness.

    Check it out, if you are so inclined: Useless Tree

    I originally made the site private primarily to stop a reader from demanding new posts when I had decided I was no longer in the mood to be enlightened. And then I never got back to posting on it or making the site public again when that mood passed away.

  • Ikkyū quotes

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    nobody knows I'm a storm
    I'm dawn on the mountain
    twilight on the town
    alone with
    the icy moon
    no passion
    these trees
    this mountain
    nothing else
    all koans just lead you on
    but not the delicious pussy
    of the young girls I go down on
    no more Zen
    write one great line
    like a needle piercing
    a sore spot on your arm

    — Ikkyū