Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Jan 10, 2026 03:12 PM

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”---Barbara Hall

**Magical Realist** · Jan 11, 2026 11:14 PM

"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 13, 2026 03:25 AM by Magical Realist.)

"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."
~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

**Magical Realist** · Jan 13, 2026 07:24 AM

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**Magical Realist** · Jan 19, 2026 02:33 AM

**Magical Realist** · Jan 20, 2026 11:25 PM

“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 21, 2026 03:13 PM by Magical Realist.)

“He shoveled the bacon out on a plate and broke the eggs in the hot grease and they
jumped and fluttered their edges to brown lace and made clucking sounds.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 22, 2026 08:58 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."---Angelina Jolie

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Yesterday 02:09 PM by Magical Realist.)

"From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art."----Michel Foucault