The Long Walk and James Jones

If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. 

A glance from your eyes, then my life will be yours. 

~ James Jones, The Thin Red Line

The West Coast - Water and Heidegger

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.” 

― Martin Heidegger

Ferns Unfurling

To sink one's teeth into what cannot be removed or thought or sought after.

A green-softened spine curling up from its self, to its other. 

Philosophical Graffiti - Palais de Justice de Bruxelles

"Master of a body is not master of a life."

~ graffiti on the steps of the Palais de Justice de Bruxelles 2005. 

Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly

"I just put my feet in the air and move them around."

~Fred Astaire

Clint Eastwood Has Something Important to Say

"I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast."

~ Clint Eastwood

A Staircase in Niagara

"Ever been kicked?" 
"Might have been."
"Frequently?" 
"No." 
"Ever kicked down stairs?" 
"Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord." 
                                 ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Backwards in Time

"You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession."

                                 ~John Huston

The Man Bill Murray

"I bet Mafia kids get bummed when they find out the tooth fairy doesn't take other people's teeth or when they find out there's no horse-head fairy at all."

                                                                 ~ Bill Murray

Trees and Hermann Hesse

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them."

~ Herman Hesse

Hermann Hesse

"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams--like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves."

Bukowski - Crude truths?

Is it ironic that Bukowski made such commentary on other persons? I don't know. But there are days when I am sympathetic to his indictments.

“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.”

"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
—The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, 1998

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”