February 2012
“A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of...”
– Albert Einstein, Principles of Research (1918)
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
– John Green
“A man is the less likely to become great the more he is dominated by reason: few...”
– Mr. Doctor
9th Symphony, premiere.
Beethoven was eager to have his work played in Berlin as soon as possible after finishing it, since he thought that musical taste in Vienna was dominated by Italian composers such as Rossini. When his friends and financiers heard this, they urged him to premiere the symphony in Vienna.
The Ninth Symphony was premiered on 7 May 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the...
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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on silver mount zion all buried in ruins we was dancing the hora until we vomited blood spinning like crazy Shoshanna was jonesing the towers had fallen and the wind called out my grandfather’s name let’s kill first the banker with his professional demeanor let’s televise and broadcast the raping of kings let our crowds be fed on tear gas and plate glass ‘cos...
Displaced →
burning in hell this piece of me fits in nowhere as other people find things to do with their time places to go with one another things to say to each other.
I am burning in hell some place north of Mexico. flowers don’t grow here.
I am not like other people other people are like other people.
they are all alike: joining grouping huddling they are both gleeful and content and i am burning in...
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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The Lobotomist
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing...”
– Eric Weiner
