Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited…
Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it is possible to labor and think.
Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861
…what I could*
for theurgy
…
…
… The One
*[Frag129.1 θ] would
Lions eat avocados
Lions eat stars
Lions eat proverbs
Lions eat paraffin
Lions eat quality
Lions eat The Vachanamrut
Lions eat rocks
Lions eat Sour Patch Kids
Lions eat the forbidden
Lions eat queens
Vile and saddening on so many levels…
Roughly 80 percent of the antibiotics used in America are given not to sick people, but to healthy animals being raised for food.
All around great site…
n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.
Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,
Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear,
Sparkling armada of promises draw near.
How slow they are! And how much time they waste,
Refusing to make haste!
Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks
Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked,
Each rope distinct,
Flagged, and the figurehead with golden tits
Arching our way, it never anchors; it’s
No sooner present than it turns to past.
Right to the last
We think each one will heave to and unload
All good into our lives, all we are owed
For waiting so devoutly and so long.
But we are wrong:
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break.
Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
“Time is of two kinds. The first, continuous and endless, destroys all animate and inanimate things (which is also the cause of creations and preservation), the second is that which can be known. This latter is also of two kinds. One is called measurable, and the other is immeasurable (immeasurable, because of being too large or small respectively).”
—Surya Siddhanta of Bapu Deva Shastri
1. Dipping, pointing, or occurring in every direction.
1691 Athenian Gaz. 21 July 1/2 Now the first thing it [sc. sound] strikes against in its circular, or quaquaversal Motion, is the Earth.
1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 442 The quaquaversal Pressure of the Blood will be controll’d by the Pressure on the Artery.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 394 The slope and quâquâ-versal dip of the beds.
1862 R. G. Latham Elem. Compar. Philol. 126 The affinities of the Lap are one-sided, those of the Turk (to borrow an expression from the geologists) quaquaversal.
1918 Econ. Geol. 13 452 The intrusion or formation of the salt plug has produced a sharp local doming or quaquaversal structure.
1984 Jrnl. Volcanol. & Geothermal Res. 20 101 The palagonite tuffs are characterized by‥an apparent quaquaversal structure.
2002 Amer. Music 20 237 In the flighty and quaquaversal Night Fantasies for piano, the composer states [etc.].
Etymology: < classical Latin quāquā versus on all sides (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius), in post-classical Latin also quaquaversum on all sides (c400 in Augustine), wherever (5th cent. in Augustine; < quāquā wherever (use as adverb of feminine ablative of quisquis whoever, reduplicated form of quisquis pron.) + versus towards: see versus prep.) + -al suffix
