Category Archives: FROM THE QUOTE BAG

Transparent In The Cadence Of The World

Posted on November 22, 2011 by ubu507

A matchless clarity came over me as I saw I had passed the peak of life. I scanned the day, one of the unpeculiar days in the recurrence of time — early November, slightly chilly, in the street tokens of … Continue reading →

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Grave Sight

Posted on October 31, 2011 by ubu507

Christians believed infinity was a realm of white light; but I thought it must be black, blue-black, booming with the thunder of colliding atoms, a theater of energy. Out of the chaos particles formed and reformed into shapes of dread … Continue reading →

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Wise Words From a Noted Critic

Posted on October 7, 2011 by ubu507

The following time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to learn, but I really thought youd have something interesting to say. … Continue reading →

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Theodor Baierl; Knight and Death

Posted on August 18, 2011 by ubu507

 But whether we struggle violently against death or merely sink into it as though it were a never-ending swoon, the reason is the same. It is because death is incomprehensible to us. The manner in which we meet it cannot … Continue reading →

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Remains

Posted on August 12, 2011 by ubu507

She remains for me the girl I have always dreamed of, the bride who has ever waited for me, the maiden whose sacred head gleams like a goddess’s through death’s rain of ashes, through the silent, trickling mist of ashes … Continue reading →

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He expected a good deal from his life, and he never went to bed without the sense of having missed it. — L.P. Hartley

Posted on August 11, 2011 by ubu507
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In the large reading room of the Salzburg University library, the librarian hanged himself from the large chandelier because, as he wrote in a suicide note, after twenty-two years of service he could no longer bear to reshelve and lend out books that were only written for the sake of wreaking havoc, and this, he said applied to every book that had ever been written. — Thomas Bernhard

Posted on July 1, 2011 by ubu507
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Fundamentalists claim to be returning to an original Christianity based on biblical texts, seemingly unaware that as early as the third century, Christian scholars such as Origen were arguing that the scriptures, at a time when the New Testament was still not in its final form, needed to be interpreted allegorically rather than literally. Who are the traditionalists here? — Charles Freeman

Posted on June 30, 2011 by ubu507
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The Descent Into Hell

Posted on June 27, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Master of St Erasmus Date 1450-1470 The British Museum When Jesus descended into Hell, the sinners listened to his words and were all saved. But the saints, believing as usual that they were being put to the … Continue reading →

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Leading Lady

Posted on June 27, 2011 by ubu507

The lazy leading lady’s languid way The lovely leading lady in our play — Donovan

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