Don’t Quote Me

The stages by which one mutates or pupates from one identity to another are not always evident while they are being undergone. Christopher Hitchens, from Hitch-22: Changing Places

I wonder if the above quote can also be applied to the dyad of Patrick and M. I must be jesting. I am not sure. What do you think, Patrick? We did not change our identity. We simply split our continuing existence into two somewhat distinct parts. We have the same past, and I suspect that we can expect the same future. It is the present, however long it can last, that separates us.

You could know if you wanted to know, but you don’t want to know. Jordan Peterson

This is especially true nowadays, with information readily available via any type of computer. Of course, the data has to be analysed for veracity and repeated falsehoods. It may also become almost unbearable to discover that lies may rule and any truth may drool. There are many assumptions that have been adopted as facts, even in science; bad and good. Lies seem to have a longer life than truths.

Poets, you see, should not be lived. They should be met in the evening at a book’s bend. Serge Lama (Translated from French)

Poets can also be met on various computer screens, both days and nights, and be rapidly translated if we do not understand their language, although poetry is especially difficult to translate if not impossible in many cases (e.g., Shakespeare, Molière). Poet parts can indeed be grasped in their words, no matter if the topic is fictitious. Some words are carefully chosen; some words cannot be avoided.

It seems to me that misery would be less painful in the sun. Charles Aznavour (Translated from French)

I used to think as much, that is until I discovered that flying roaches also like to live in the sun, albeit hiding from it till dark. What a disgusting lifeform cockroaches are, as most other insects! Ants and especially bees can be cute and perhaps a few others, but not in general, and they surely seem to rule the land. Some of them can be found listed in menus. I bet that spices are always required.

All of us are assholes but some of us are more than one. Patrick M

I think that I (we) came up with this “thought” in my mid-20s after I had met too many assholes for someone in his mid-20s. I was surely an asshole too, which did not help. Assholehood is a natural law. Even other animals are assholes, and some plants are assholes too. But it appears that we may be the only species who can recognise it in ourselves. No wonder that we love comedies and the most spicy ironies.

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Ancient Greek Quotes to Strengthen Character

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The Silver Statue of Saint Patrick

It stands there and it gazes with silver

eyes. I see it sees, we see the river

of tears that overflows beyond these walls

of fears. Suffering, painfully it falls

to the floor like a large coin of Sterling.

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It lies there and it gazes with silver

eyes. I see it sees, we see the beaver

of weeds that licks with helplessness these walls

of creeds. Caring with care, rising, he calls

it, he loves it like a cave full of saints.

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He stands there and he gazes with silver

eyes. I see he sees, we see the quiver

of the lives who pose, their backs to the walls

of the hives. Hell! Heaven! He shouts, he tolls

his heart and his soul like a divine bell.

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He dies there and he raises his silver

eyes to the sky. I see, we all see her,

a mother, feeding it with her dry walls

of musty milk. Father! Brother! Who mauls

her? No other but you, merciless Man.