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‘This is a quantum universe,’ said Spike, ‘neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.’
‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’
Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’
― Jeanette Winterson
‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’
Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’
― Jeanette Winterson
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Vincent Van Gogh realising his impact on Art and Culture.
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Vincent Van Gogh realising his impact on Art and Culture.
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
The Book of Life.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Book of Life.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#StreetPhotography Michael Wolf, from his series "Tokyo Compression" (candid photos in Tokyo’s underground system).
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#StreetPhotography Michael Wolf, from his series "Tokyo Compression" (candid photos in Tokyo’s underground system).
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
"It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own death, or (1)
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own death, or (1)
"In my rather long psychological experience I have observed a great many people whose unconscious psychic activity I was able to follow into the immediate presence of death… On the whole, I was astonished to see how little ado the unconscious psyche makes of death. (1)
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"In my rather long psychological experience I have observed a great many people whose unconscious psychic activity I was able to follow into the immediate presence of death… On the whole, I was astonished to see how little ado the unconscious psyche makes of death. (1)
"Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there."
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
#BookSky
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
#BookSky
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there."
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
#BookSky
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
#BookSky
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Mending the Earth.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
(The only reason we have such shoddy instruments and tools to change our lives, is because we need to buy lots of other things first.)
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
(The only reason we have such shoddy instruments and tools to change our lives, is because we need to buy lots of other things first.)
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mending the Earth.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
(The only reason we have such shoddy instruments and tools to change our lives, is because we need to buy lots of other things first.)
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
(The only reason we have such shoddy instruments and tools to change our lives, is because we need to buy lots of other things first.)
on this road
there are no travellers
― autumn evening
Kono michi ya / yuku hito nashini / aki no kure
#Haiku Matsuo Bashō
#Photography Francesca Woodman
there are no travellers
― autumn evening
Kono michi ya / yuku hito nashini / aki no kure
#Haiku Matsuo Bashō
#Photography Francesca Woodman
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
on this road
there are no travellers
― autumn evening
Kono michi ya / yuku hito nashini / aki no kure
#Haiku Matsuo Bashō
#Photography Francesca Woodman
there are no travellers
― autumn evening
Kono michi ya / yuku hito nashini / aki no kure
#Haiku Matsuo Bashō
#Photography Francesca Woodman
Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront
Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof.)
― Paul Éluard, Dignes de vivre
#Poetry
Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof.)
― Paul Éluard, Dignes de vivre
#Poetry
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront
Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof.)
― Paul Éluard, Dignes de vivre
#Poetry
Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof.)
― Paul Éluard, Dignes de vivre
#Poetry
"Swept along by the winds that carry the hint of fortune, men come to the gold mine of Serra Pelada. No one is taken there by force, yet once they arrive, all become slaves of the dream of gold and the need to stay alive. Once inside, it becomes impossible to leave."
― Sebastião Salgado
― Sebastião Salgado
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Swept along by the winds that carry the hint of fortune, men come to the gold mine of Serra Pelada. No one is taken there by force, yet once they arrive, all become slaves of the dream of gold and the need to stay alive. Once inside, it becomes impossible to leave."
― Sebastião Salgado
― Sebastião Salgado
#StreetPhotography Raymond Depardon (1980), Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
#StreetPhotography Raymond Depardon (1980), Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
"A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Chapter One, London.
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Chapter One, London.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Chapter One, London.
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Chapter One, London.
“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
― Zygmunt Bauman
― Zygmunt Bauman
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
― Zygmunt Bauman
― Zygmunt Bauman
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."
-- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
-- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."
-- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
-- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable