"Ego ergo sum. Non ego ergo non sum." (a good t-shirt idea. I
don't know where I heard this one).
"If you LIVE in the now, you'll LEARN to expect the
unexpected"... it serves us right.
"One bird in the hand is worth two pokes in the eye"
(this one is almost certainly from W.C. Fields or somebody,
but since I have an atrocious memory I might as well put it
here as though it were my own).
"life is metapolitics"--after Febr., 2005
"While I die I am dead" --2003(The last line of my poem
LEARNING, although the concept is surely borrowed).
"Writing is about rising above all that changes, that is,
realizing what changes within. For it is the stillness
that moves"--taken from a tentative chapter of
Significance in the Life of a Schizophrenic, a memoir-like
piece I began to develop in spring of 2005.
�The night sky; the obliteration of obliterations of
obliterations.��circa July 2001
"Mass, not substance, defies me"--Dec 2001 (the
frustration of trying to overcome the crass demands...)
"(It is) strange to think that the physical and the
personal relate to one another. More likely the
personal is subserviant to the social, which perceives
the physical as relavant."--before Sept. 2004
�Thanks to science, fear and consternation are not the
intimate brothers they once were.��circa July 2001
"What fatal crafting is a final dream; it holds the locks
and reckons keys"~2003
"(There is) a secret in every birth, in every boundary,
each bifurcation, any dimunition." ~2003
"Choosing a name is choosing a thing to follow, is
having a manner is taking a form is having a shape is
taking a mask is hiding is being dark is being birthed
is being whole. A name then is an aperture to the soul"
--2003
"Each thing is a convergence of things not wishing to
be converged upon. A labyrinth of worlds, not
ennumerations, only a chance, rambling mind can keep
itself attuned to the shape of a thing that does not hold
itself by shapes."--2003
� 'Words themselves are a trap' And it struck me; we are
essential or we contain the essential; we are part of a rabid
essence that will spark, be bitten, spew, be bitter and die.
And I was happy.��circa 19-20 July 2001
"It may be that those who believe that nature and
capacity are the same are wishing the consequence...
When labor receives just compensation, it is because
either the labor or the conpensation was part of our
nature... Any valuable resource, insofar as it is ours,
should be considered as part of our valuable nature,
and not merely a product of the subjugation of our
nature to the fatal equations of life." --July 2005
"If only ex-cess proved suc-cess.��Fall 2001
�An unimpeachable vigor was growing out of the realization
that the roller-coaster ride of experience had no pretense of
making detours or even constructing compartments of limbo
as the days of summer whirl to rest through the wheels and
sinuous by-ways of an active soul. I thought of sex and pure
mind without the sanctity of a middleman.��7 July 2001,
in England
Quotes of Nathan Coppedge, page 2
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