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Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Afterword David Foster Wallace - Good Old Neon Matt Lakeman - Against Dog Ownership Some Guy - Anti-Majestic Cosmic Horseshit Visual Art: Van Gogh - Self Portrait with Gray Felt Hat Gustave Doré - The Empyrean Gustav Klimt - The Kiss Waldemar Fink - Evening in Adelboden Franz Marc - The Foxes John Singer Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Rassouli - Joy Riders Quotes: Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent. - André Gide It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand until it makes you weep. - Robert Anton Wilson I really only love god as much as I love the person I love the least. - Dorothy Day if you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day - Leonard Cohen The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say 'No' and take the consequences. - Robert Anton Wilson Because ten billion years' time is so fragile, so ephemeral... it arouses such a bittersweet, almost heartbreaking fondness. - Now and Then, Here and There If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately. - Terence McKenna Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. - Edna St. Vincent Millay Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. - Rumi The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution. - Igor Stravinsky Once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. - George S. Patton I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. - Douglas Hofstadter If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann A lot of people pass through the thinking "I'm a guru" and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness. - Terence McKenna Jokes: During Yom Kippur, the rabbi is seized by a sudden wave of guilt, and prostrates himself and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” The cantor is likewise seized by guilt, and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” Seeing this, the janitor at the back of the synagogue prostrates himself and cries, “God, I am nothing before you!” And the rabbi nudges the cantor and whispers, “Look who thinks he’s nothing.” A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. I remember a story about a conversation at a dinner party where all the people were discussing what they thought was going to happen after death. Whether they would simply be extinguished, or whether they’d be reincarnated, or whatever. And present at the dinner there was a very respectable country squire who was on the vestry of the local church. Very pious. And finally the hostess said to him, “Sir Roger, you haven’t said anything in the conversation this evening! What do you think is going to happen to you when you die?” He said, “I’m perfectly sure that I shall go to heaven and enjoy everlasting bliss, but I wish you wouldn’t raise such a depressing subject.” A mathematician is working at his desk in his office. His cigarette falls off the desk into the wastebasket, causing the papers within to burst into flames. He quickly scans the room, and notices a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. "Ah! A solution exists!" he exclaims -- and he resumes his work.