“You notice it first as April ends and May begins, a change in the season, not exactly a warming—in fact not at all a warming—yet suddenly summer seems near, a possibility, even a promise. You pass a window, you walk to Central Park, you find yourself swimming in the colour blue: the actual light is blue, and over the course of an hour or so this blue deepens, becomes more intense even as it darkens and fades, approximates finally the blue of the glass on a clear day at Chartres, or that of the Cerenkov radiation thrown off by the fuel rods in the pools of nuclear reactors. The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very word “gloaming” reverberates, echoes— the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows.”
- Joan Didion, Blue Nights
- Joan Didion, Blue Nights
The deepest, deadliest and most common of all sins: Continuation of the fight against the defeated enemy; fight against the enemy of yesterday, which no longer exists, in order not to have to face the true and present enemy of today.
- Carl Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt
Forwarded from tomrum
A picture is worth a thousand words,
but not all of them are happy.
To see unhappy is to think unhappy
leading to a day of stress.
A stressful day
jumbles your mind
twists your stomach
and clenches your hands.
A stressful day
is how to create
a thousand problems.
There is no better way that i can think of
to dump of all the stress
than to rid of the problem
with a cigarette.
As it pulls from your lips
and slips from your fingers
and falls to the ground,
take a deep breath,
in and out,
to release the stress
and your problems.
Look at the stub
small, white, and burnt,
laying at your toes.
Now smile and
relax your hands.
A thousand words
and a thousand problems
have now been left
as a conflict to deal with
for the cigarette.
Hannah - A cigarette for thousand problems
but not all of them are happy.
To see unhappy is to think unhappy
leading to a day of stress.
A stressful day
jumbles your mind
twists your stomach
and clenches your hands.
A stressful day
is how to create
a thousand problems.
There is no better way that i can think of
to dump of all the stress
than to rid of the problem
with a cigarette.
As it pulls from your lips
and slips from your fingers
and falls to the ground,
take a deep breath,
in and out,
to release the stress
and your problems.
Look at the stub
small, white, and burnt,
laying at your toes.
Now smile and
relax your hands.
A thousand words
and a thousand problems
have now been left
as a conflict to deal with
for the cigarette.
Hannah - A cigarette for thousand problems