'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery. -Brian Goodwin quoted by Roger Lewin in Complexity (1992)
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! -Nietzsche
“One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Alice and the White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass, (1872).
"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill" (Werewolf Bridge, Robert Anton Wison)
We may lose our Humanity to avoid losing our minds, yet what is madness but lost Humanity? Sooner or later, grins the Beast, you shall be mine. ~Vampire: The Masquerade
"True insanity is using the same behavior and expecting different results."Albert Einstein
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not. ~Douglas Adams, spoken by the Electric Monk, Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akiro Kurosawa
"Logic should be abolished on the basis that illogical people could sustain permanent psychological damage." -Ian Richetti
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -- T. S. Eliot
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
Reality is an oxymoron. - Piyush Gupta (1977 - )
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope. --A. A. Attanasio, "The Dragon and the Unicorn"
Full blown batshit crazy, but still holding down a productive job.
I smell blood, and an era of prominent madmen. --W.H. Auden
I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.
Mentaly confused and prone to wandering.
Sanity is such a fragile thing... we must stomp all over it! --Mad Fox
Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.
What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad. --S. Searamouche
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. --Hermann Hesse
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
You should see the ones we don't let out in public.
"He's weird."
"No, he's wound up by some strange compulsion which leads him through dark pathways."
"Yeah. Weird.” --Terry Pratchett
He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally." --Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing '72"
I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive. --The Tick
I've always wanted to be normal, but lately I've come to suspect that this is it.
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic
Listen three eyes, don't you try and outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
Not only are people weirder than you think, people are weirder than you can think.
OK I'm weird, but I'm Saving Up to be Eccentric.
Weird Enough for Government Work.
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting, "All gods are bastards." --Terry Pratchett, "Discworld series"
Proverbs for Paranoids
1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immortality of the Master.
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the
answers.
4. YOU hide, they seek.
5. Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting
themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
From nonexistence I entered existence and what did I find? Bad weather. -William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. -Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos.
Life, like some grand mosaic slowly loses hold over time, and the fragile strands that connect the many different parts unravels. The universe is a mirror, fragile and reflective, and we all stand in awe of our own human vanity. Fools see the universe as linear, absolute, all knowing. The wise see the universe as chaotic, unknown, fragile. Only on the verge of infinity can one see the fall apart universe. Sadness is knowing that we all stand upon a universe with a cracked glass bottom, and in an instant we may all sink into oblivion. Everything falls apart. Empires rise and crumble as tin soldiers hold plastic banners of righteous intent, all soaked with the blood of innocents. Hands raise and fall to the deafening sound of a million questions all unanswered. Love is just another unfelt emotion, talked about but never seen in full bloom. Love is only rumor and hearsay in the fall apart universe. Eventually we all must stand upon the jagged glass of the broken boundaries and broken promises. We must all suffer the soul bleeding that follows as the tattered splinters dig deep. -Patrick Goins, The Fall Apart Universe
"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial." --Charles Baudelaire
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty, therefore there is an invisible cat in it." --C.S. Lewis
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Pick a nice day, it suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground.
Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it's the second point, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
-Adams, Douglas
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence." -Unknown
Madness is giving in to a system that clouds one's mind so thick with meaningless information it is deprived of it's ability to think. - Jordan Allen Wagner
Mad? No. Eccentric perhaps. It must be admitted that I talk to myself, but I also have the good sense not to listen. -Spandrell
Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend? -L. J. Washington
"What.. were they psychos?"
"Did they look like psychos?! Is that what they looked like? They were vampires.
Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they
are!" --"Lost Boys"
What is maddness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? -Theodore Roethke
Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle. But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home. ~Alan Moore, Watchmen
"Magic, in light of modern physics, quantum theory and probability theory is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that science will become more magical and magic more scientific."
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! -Nietzsche
A ZEN STORY
by Camden Benares, The Count of Five
Headmaster, Camp Meeker Cabal
A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America confusing.
He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords
that troubled him, but he remained troubled. One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate." He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him. His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead." Hearing this, the man was enlightened.
"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill" (Werewolf Bridge, Robert Anton Wison)
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business." --Tom Robbins
Never forget that magic is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals. --Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs
Support your local Medical Examiner - Die strangely.
The first and great commandment is, Don't Let Them Scare You. --Elmer Davis
"If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty, therefore there is an invisible cat in it." --C.S. Lewis
Gretchen: My mom had to get a restraining order against my step dad. He has emotional problems.
Donnie: Oh, I have those too! What kind does your step dad have?
Gretchen: He stabbed my mom four times in the chest.
Donnie: Oh.
~Donnie Darko
“For someone who supposedly has her soul tainted by the evil of a dead god, you remind me considerably of a chipmunk with a sugar high and a death wish.” ~Baldur’s Gate II
"Surrendering to reality is a tranquil suicide."
"There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think."
~Terry Pratchett, ERIC
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