Post photo of self with quotation from literature thread.

[swag]

I am a sick man . . . . I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.



quotation: Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground translated by Constance Garnett.

Photo by H., 10/05/2005

for jpgray.

[swag]

1. Why, that guy looks just like the long-lost placenta of little Marty Amis!

[swag]

2. Of course RD Laing had the cure for the heartbreak of a long-lost placenta

Find your long-lost placenta and marry it!

Cures schizophrenia and whatever else ails ya!

for tigereye

[swag]

3. But I won't be marrying little Marty.

I am already married to a woman.

And I am sick to death of hearing about little Marty's teeth.

[El Fuego]

4. ...pssst.....was it good for you?....

[swag]

5. Little Marty, Is that you?

[El Fuego]

6. You said you'd marry me!

[swag]

10. Oh, my long-lost placenta!

My schizophrenia is cured!

I kiss you!

[tigereye]

59. you look fine, Swag

if a little grumpy. All you need is a porkpie hat.

(sorry, I fell asleep after my son went to bed)

[Fenris]

7. ....

Shall I awake in a few months, in a few years, broken, deceived, in the midst of new ruins? I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.



quotation: Sartre - Nausea translated by Lloyd Alexander

photo from some time last year.

[WCGreen]

9. Existentialism with Puca Shells... Gotta Love it...

[Fenris]

11. Those are not puca shells.

They were actually bakelite beads.

[WCGreen]

12. Sorry, It's hard to tell in black and white.....

[jpgray]

8. Hahahahahaha

Perfect. :thumbsup:

[jpgray]

13. "Two percent of the people think;

"three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."

[RandomKoolzip]

64. Wow. You look cool.

[progmom]

14. nice pic, swag!

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Redstone]

25. That's a helluva nice quote, progmom, and a terrific picture.

Some day you'll tell me the story behind the picture, yes? I would indeed like to hear it.

Redstone

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. I do believe this is me through and through

"If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do"-- Helen Lawrenson



Now, to add an actual literature quote:
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

[Redstone]

16. "He who says he has loved twice has not loved once."

Ambrose Bierce.



Redstone

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. "I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam I Am."

T.S. Geisel- Green Eggs and Ham.

[drhilarius]

18. "We live as we dream-

alone."

Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness".

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. I actually wrote a philosophy paper using that quote

Definitely a profound statement!

[drhilarius]

22. I've always loved how simple and elegant it is...

and it seems that its profundity lay in the simplicity of the sentiment expressed.

[Whoa_Nelly]

30. Indeed, it is a very intriguing statement

That's exactly why I was drawn to it as the thesis for my paper

[no name no slogan]

47. It's also a very cool song by Gang of Four

off the Songs of the Free LP (which I'm currently listening to, BTW)

[swag]

32. Post needs photo to accompany quotation

[drhilarius]

37. Sorry, my eyes just gravitated to post lit quote...

and I missed the pic part. At a work computer so I don't have access to my pics.

[swag]

39. I'll get over it.

I just wanted to try to hassle a pic out of you.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. All men live enveloped in whale-lines.

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.

[Redstone]

26. Your kid's grin is priceless.

Redstone

[asthmaticeog]

21. Pschitt

"What do you want, Sir? Piss off. You make me sick and tired."

-- "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry, tr. Cyril Connolly and Simon Watson Taylor

[swag]

23. Is it only legend that a riot broke out

on the utterance of the first "Merdre!" at the first performance?

What a great play. Says it all.

[asthmaticeog]

27. According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jarry

"On opening night (December 11, 1896), with traditionalists and the avant-garde in the audience, King Ubu (played by Firmin Gémier) stepped forward and intoned the opening word, "Merdre!" ("Shittr!"). A quarter of an hour of pandemonium ensued: outraged cries, booing, and whistling by the offended parties, countered by cheers and applause by the more forward-thinking contingent. Such interruptions continued through the evening. At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until 1907."

Yay! This wanton world sure could use a good art disturbance. Never happens anymore. How sad.

[swag]

33. Yeah, "Shittr!"

My "New Directions" paperback translated it that way. Illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. Everybody who stays at my place reads that play and tries to steal the book. But I advise them, as Pere Ubu advised Mere Ubu, that if they do, I'll bash their fuckin' heads right off so their noggin' will just be left wagglin' by a thread of flesh. I had better go upstairs and see if the copy is still on the shelves: I hate to see a head left wagglin' by a thread of flesh.

Also gots a "Bald Soprano" by Ionesco illustrated by Jim Dine. Not so bad. But not as good as "Ubu Roi." Books stuck together in my head by general era and because both were bought about the same time from the old Dupont Circle, DC Second Story Books, where all the patently fuckable punk rock kids of the era pretended to work, all the while giving their friends outlandish discounts on pristine multi-volumed (the only kind) sets of "The Warren Report," and so on.

Could also get a good Dog Pie at the Negril Bakery. Those were different times.

[RandomKoolzip]

58. Oh great...late for a discussion of Jarry.

Fuck! Whay do I always miss the good threads?

[Blue-Jay]

24. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire

[ulysses]

28. When the child was a child

It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,



the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.

- Peter Handke, Song of Childhood

[WCGreen]

29. On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realised

for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest....




Ocsar Wilde..... The Importance of Being Earnest

[AVulgarianHue]

31. “Solitude is independence."

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own;

He who,secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today. John Dryden, "Imitation of Horace."

[tigereye]

62. oh

I love it when people quote Dryden. Few seem to. :thumbsup:

[alarcojon]

35. your slightest look will easily unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

e.e. cummings

[WCGreen]

36. That is so sweet....

[SeattleGirl]

38. "I am sworn upon the alter of God

eternal hostilitiy against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" Thomas Jefferson.

That's me on the left.

[Magrittes Pipe]

40. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Quote from Rainer Maria Rilke

[Shell Beau]

41. Okay

Beauty of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe

[Heidi]

42. From Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter":

"I believe I have done these two things. Faced down regret.
Avoided ruin. And I am still here to tell about it."
-- From The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford.

[Misunderestimator]

43. To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Woody Allen... :D

[JimmyJazz]

44. But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now?

That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! - Lewis Carroll

[XNASA]

45. .

"We are dancing in the hollow of the cup of nothingness. We are of one flesh, but separated like stars."

- Henry Miller

[tigereye]

63. that is excellent X

I love Miller quotes.

[XNASA]

66. We're both fans of Henry's......

Ain't we?

[tigereye]

67. I was a Miller obsessive in my younger years

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

[no name no slogan]

48. There once was a man from Nantucket

oh, never mind.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

49. will you be my "airplane" too?

[no name no slogan]

50. sorry

you're not my type :P

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

51. oh, fudge

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

52. wait, I can change for you!

[no name no slogan]

54. uh-uh

she is mine and I am hers.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

53. "There was only one catch and

that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle."
CATCH-22, Joseph Heller

[GrpCaptMandrake]

55. "That's some catch, that Catch-22."

"It's the best there is."

-------

"I see everything once," cried Yossarian.

"We've made him all better," said the doctors.

------

"You don't have to call me 'Father,' said the Chaplain. 'I'm only an anabaptist."

-----

"Applecheeks."

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

57. hell, yeah. welcome to DU.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

60. Many thanks n/t

[Shell Beau]

65. So all you show is your lips?

After what I faxed you?

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

68. ...

my ass is on the way

[Shell Beau]

69. LOL. Okay I'll be waiting!

[trackfan]

56. "God made wine to gladden the heart of men;

do not, therefore, when at table you see your neighbor pour wine into his glass, be eager to mingle water with it. Why would you drown truth?.. Man...is framed in a manner that he may raise his glass to his mouth...Let us, then, with glass in hand, adore this benevolent wisdom; --let us adore and drink!"
---Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Abbé Morellet, 1779

[RandomKoolzip]

61. From Steve Erickson's "Arc D'X:"

The rooms became strewn with furious women. Once it would have meant everything to him if even one of them had loved him. Now they all loved him, when he was too old for it or too unworthy. A friend argued that there was something about him that almost naturally raised women's expectations, something that persuaded them that he was incapable of hurting them and was bound to submit, sooner or later, to their tenacity and patience......"I guess it's the surprise of my life...to find out you're a bastard like all the rest."

[RetroLounge]

70. It's not a pic of me, but the two people I love most in this world

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."



Gabriel García Márquez
Love In The Time Of Cholera

RL

[El Fuego]

71. OK, here's one:

"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise." - Jane Austen, Emma

[Dastard Stepchild]

72. "The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related....

that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again." Thomas Paine

Me sublimely playing with my pooch on a gloroius winter day in a very ridiculous outfit...

[XemaSab]

73. "People can be perfectly good,

but not good for what one wants."



Henry James, "Wings of the Dove."

[bridgit]

74. "All hearts in love use their own tongues....

"Let every eye negotiate for itself. And trust no agent."

~ Much Ado About Nothing ~



and one for the road...

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright. Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

~ Sonnet 147 ~

[wildhorses]

75. Begin the morning by saying to yourself____

I shall meet today
Bores, Stupid men, Hypocrites and Liars.
But, I canbe reasonable and not harmed by
any of them.
Marcus Aurelius

[Mr. McD]

76. John Steinbeck

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.



John Steinbeck
East of Eden