7 REAL reasons

"The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you." --Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son (2012)

Epsilon Ludi.

"...these gems are heavy with fate, not mere pretty trinkets." --Ithell Colquhoun, Goose of Hermogenes (1961)

I toy with the thought of writing a novel; i don't toy with the thought of making an ice sculpture the size of the Titanic.

"Herodotus rated the Egyptian labyrinth near Crocodopolis (completed in 1795 BC) a greater wonder than the pyramids." --William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason (1988)

"Nothing will be revealed except the absence of revelation, the absence of God’s plan, and the omnipresence of chaos and contingency."

"The avoidance of misery and
pity is a harrowing task for
one who must picture humanity
upside down and singing"
     --Frank O'Hara

The New Gnosticism. More.

All our arrested, converging tasks harry the drivers who sit idling in the midst of a big traffic snarl-up: this is not one thing, or many thing, but both. What story can come of any single driver's experience? A warning, a lamentation, a precise analysis? Or should i get out & direct traffic?

Shuttered.

(via buzzfeed)

"But Nile no more confines them now: What bound
Can for insatiate avarice be found!
Freighted with Libyan deaths our merchants come,
And poisonous asps are things of price at Rome."
     --Rowe's Lucan IX (1196-1199)

If I were Slavoj Zizek.

(with char Vinnedge on lead guitar)