June 2007
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“inter urinas et faeces nascimur”
– Sigmund Freud (1930)
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Souring Osprey
Last sumer I read Return of the Osprey by David Gessner that I found, as usual, on the remainder rack at B&N. Gessner spent a sumer watching ospreys hatch and raise their young. Last week at the Library I picked up his sequel Souring with Fidel in which he follows the osprey migration from New England down to Cuba and then Venezuela. Reading this I got excited, grabbed my binoculars and...
“The problem is not desire. It’s that your desires are too small.”
– Sri Nisargadatta
“Chassez le naturel, il revient au gallop.”
– French proverb: Chase away the natural, and it comes back at a gallop.
Nasruddin' Weeping
Nasruddin sits in the center of a Persian market place crying his eyes out. At his feet a platter of peppers spill out on the ground. Steadily, methodicallly, he reaches for pepper after pepper. Popping them into his mouth, he chews delibeately, at the same time wailing uncontrollably. “What’s wrong, Nasruddin?” his friends ask, gathering around this extraordinary sight....
Fantastic Art from Corell Univesity Library →
Images bubbling out of the fetid human imagination. Wonderfully weird.
“Sitting in silence is the holy ablution. Sitting in silence is the japa. Sitting...”
– The Ribhu Gita
“I have an interesting case. I’m treating two sets of Siamese twins with...”
– Leonard Zelig (Zelig: 1993; screenplay by Woody Allen)
“All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is...”
– Milarepa
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my...”
– D. H. Lawrence