randomthoughts2

Oct 11, 2001

One monotonous day is followed
by another monotonous, identical day. The same
things will happen, they will happen again --
the same moments find us and leave us.

A month passes and ushers in another month.
One easily guesses the coming events;
they are the boring ones of yesterday.
And the morrow ends up not resembling a morrow anymore.

Constatine P. Cavafy (1908)

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Oct 12, 2001

There are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

-- Charles Bukowsk

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Oct 18, 2001

When people aren't asking questions
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that were'nt enough to annoy you
They employ you.

Anybody at leisure
incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working,
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,

And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:

That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

- Ogden Nash

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Oct 19, 2001

I shall choose friends among men,
but neither slaves nor masters.
And I shall choose only such as please me,
And them shall I love and respect,
but neither command nor obey.

And we shall join our hands when we wish,
or walk alone when we so desire.

- Ayn Rand (from Anthem)

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