joke

Heard a joke once : A man goes to the doctor and says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels alone in the harsh and threatening world where what lies ahead is uncertain and vague. Doctor says " treatment is simple. Great clown pagliacci is in town, go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears, says " But Doctor.........I am Pagliacci". - Watchmen

what's heaven? What's earth? All in the mind

If you ask me of a book with a soul, I will undoubtedly tell you 'on the road'. Some of the my favorite quotations from the book.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. - sal

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one noble function of the time, move. - sal

Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see? -sal

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. - sal

I wanted to know what "IT" meant.
He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his belly button strain, remembrances of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows it's not the tune that counts but IT
-dean

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there — and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace until they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flits by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. -Dean

"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there."
"Where we going, man?"
"I don't know but we gotta go."

what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind

Songs of innocence

Little lamb,

Here I am.

Come and lick,

my white neck.

Let me pull,

your soft wool.

Let me kiss,

your soft face

Merrily, Merrily we welcome in the year.

Spring, William Blake.

Big Brother is watching you

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell - 1984

1984

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree