Common sense isn't.
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| He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Beauty. ~ |
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| Truths that wake, To perish never. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. ~ |
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| When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder, would they know it was me? |
| ~J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, 1955 ~ |
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| Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though late; In code corroborating Calvin’s creed And cynic tyrannies of honest kings; He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed, Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds The grimy slur on the Republic’s faith implied, Which holds that Man is naturally good, And—more—is Nature’s Roman, never to be scourged. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The House-Top (l. 19–27). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| Ford and Arthur on Vogon poetry: "I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective. And er ... interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the ... er ... er ..." "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the ... er ..." "... humanity of the ..." "Vogonity." "Ah yes, Vogonity (sorry) of the poet's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other, and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into ... into ... er ..." "Into whatever it was the poem was about!" |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| This is why so many artists, bending under the burden, take refuge in the ivory tower or, conversely, in the social church. But as for me, I see in both choices a like act of resignation. We must simultaneously serve suffering and beauty. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, The Artist And His Time, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| you might be a physics major... ...if you chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force." |
| ~ physics humor ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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