Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[BenG]

“Horrible possibility: if the geeks are right about Ohio, might they also be right about climate?”
- David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, on twitter

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

“Horrible possibility: if the geeks are right about Ohio, might they also be right about climate?”
- David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, on twitter

[desertblues]

I am reading all Haruki Murakami. I remember this quote:

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us," he says after the phone stops ringing. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that's where I imagine it—there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

in " Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by BenG

“Horrible possibility: if the geeks are right about Ohio, might they also be right about climate?”
- David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, on twitter

Originally Posted by desertblues

I am reading all Haruki Murakami. I remember this quote:

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us," he says after the phone stops ringing. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that's where I imagine it—there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

in " Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami

Good on, Ben.

DB, that is beautiful! I must read some Murakami.

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

That is a book I would want to read.
At the moment I'm reading the Chinese classics. This is from the first book I read. 'Journey to the west', by Wu Cheng'en.
This journey is interesting as it combines adventure, poetry and wisdom. It speaks about the faibles of men, but in this taoïst/buddhist world there is also forgiveness. It is a journey through life, with it's pitfalls.
The poetry in between the battles:

"The earth is black in front of the cliff, and no orchids grow.
Creepers crawl in the brown mud by the path.
Where did the birds of yesterday fly?
To what other mountain did the animals go?
Leopards and pythons dislike this ruined spot;
Cranes and snakes avoid the desolation.
My criminal thoughts of those days past
Brought on the disaster of today."

[Hamlet53]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

In the process of reading Cloud Atlas now (about one quarter through). From that (so true):

A question, Luisa?”

“Yes. Is there a new editorial policy no one’s told me about that excludes articles containing truth?”

“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it is. Nancy, what’ve you got for me?”

Originally Posted by BenG

“Horrible possibility: if the geeks are right about Ohio, might they also be right about climate?”
- David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, on twitter

Originally Posted by desertblues

I am reading all Haruki Murakami. I remember this quote:

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us," he says after the phone stops ringing. "Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that's where I imagine it—there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

in " Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami

I read my first Murakami book a little under a year ago, and have now read a total of four. I like! This is from Norwegian Wood:

I had learned one thing from Kizuki’s death, and I believed that I had made it a part of myself in the form of a philosophy: “Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life.”

By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko’s death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

In the process of reading Cloud Atlas now (about one quarter through). ......

The film of Cloud Atlas is coming to our town in december and I'll go and see it.


I'm on my 9th Murakami and Norwegian Wood is indeed a good book. I didn't like the 'a Wild Sheep Chase', but 'Kafka on the shore' is good, save for some cruelty in the beginning, that put me almost off the book.
The book I like best is Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the World. That one I will read again.
Presently I'm reading 'The Elephant vanishes"; short stories.

[Hamlet53]

Originally Posted by desertblues

The film of Cloud Atlas is coming to our town in december and I'll go and see it.


I'm on my 9th Murakami and Norwegian Wood is indeed a good book. I didn't like the 'a Wild Sheep Chase', but 'Kafka on the shore' is good, save for some cruelty in the beginning, that put me almost off the book.
The book I like best is Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the World. That one I will read again.
Presently I'm reading 'The Elephant vanishes"; short stories.

I have also read Kafka on the Shore and really liked it. Though if you are referring to that business about the cats, yes that was hard to take. And I don't even like cats.

I to am really looking forward to the film version of Cloud Atlas coming to my town. There is no guarantee that it well though. I live in a small town in a rural area, and sometimes films that are not likely to draw big among children and teenagers are just never booked for the one single screen theater in town. That and the place is old and so high definition and 3-D movies don't show well in it.

I am also looking forward to the film of The Life of Pi. I was not that impressed with the book, and was not entranced with the mystic/religious theme, but the trailers I have seen are stunning. I may have to make a full day trip of it to see that in a proper theater.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

I have also read Kafka on the Shore and really liked it. Though if you are referring to that business about the cats, yes that was hard to take. And I don't even like cats.

I to am really looking forward to the film version of Cloud Atlas coming to my town. There is no guarantee that it well though..

Well, I have a cat.....
The Cloud of Atlas will only play in the small arthouse film- theatre in our middle- sized town. The big cinemas don't want these kind of films.

[kennyc]

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
- Carl Sagan

[kennyc]

“Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

[Quexos]

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux ..."

Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[kennyc]

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
- Oscar Wilde
from Goodreads today In celebration of Thanksgiving.

[kennyc]

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- Lewis Thomas

Born 11/25/1913 (not quite 100 years ago )

Lives of a Cell is wonderful:
http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Cell-Not...3866113&sr=1-1

[poohbear_nc]

There is always more for the heart to learn.
- James Church, A Corpse in the Koryo