"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
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“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Edward Said (1994)


11 January, 2007 at 5:47 am
Striking as you wrote.
I wonder why some are obsessed with the equality of sexes!
Obviously they are not equal! :)
11 January, 2007 at 5:49 am
One looks like the sun, the other, perhaps a meteorite :)
11 January, 2007 at 7:45 am
:D Love your cosmic metaphors lol The size differential is striking indeed.
12 January, 2007 at 2:04 am
A zygote is a gamete’s way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe. - Robert Heinlein
Zygotes unite! It’s the only way to survive.