Quote of the day

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
― Gerry Spence, How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday

“I don’t want a sharp chick who quotes Kerouac; I just want to hear my old lady say, “Get up and fix the toilet, it’s still making noise.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

(Mar 26, 2020 04:41 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:

Did you see this?

Billionaire's Instagram-Perfect Isolation on a Luxury Superyacht Draws Outrage

Geffen, net worth $7.7bn according to Forbes, sent a virtual postcard to his 84,000 Instagram followers on Saturday morning, to let them know he too was feeling the hardships of enforced solitude.

"Sunset last night…" Geffen wrote, to accompany a travel brochure-quality photograph of his vessel resting at anchor in the picturesque Caribbean sea.

"Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I hope everybody is staying safe."

“It's no good trying to get rid of your aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”
― John Cage

"Paranormal phenomena have a betwixt-and-between aspect; as such, they are liminal occurrences, and they display the properties associated with liminality. Liminal persons, phenomena, and events tend to blur boundaries, upset classification schemes, and foster ambivalence and ambiguity. Such conditions are dangerous, but they can also be a source of supernatural power."--George Hansen