rhythms for bears

Jan 4, 2012 4:20pm

animals are divided into:

• those that belong to the Emperor,
• embalmed ones,
• those that are trained,
• suckling pigs,
• mermaids,
• fabulous ones,
• stray dogs,
• those included in the present classification,
• those that tremble as if they were mad,
• innumerable ones,
• those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
• others,
• those that have just broken a flower vase,
• those that from a long way off look like flies.

from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,
 Jorge Luis Borges

Jan 3, 2012 4:20am
Dec 15, 2011 4:20pm
Nov 16, 2011 4:20pm
“Some people turn sad awfully young,” he said. “No special reason, it  seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier,  tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder  younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

“Some people turn sad awfully young,” he said. “No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

Nov 13, 2011 4:20pm

In time you need to learn, to love
The ebb just like the flow
Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
until gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know
the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low

Nov 7, 2011 4:20pm

“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn’t really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I’ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I’ve been pretending I’m OK, just to get along, just for, I don’t know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.”

Oct 10, 2011 4:20pm
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Oct 10, 2011 4:20pm

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Sep 18, 2011 4:20pm
Sep 14, 2011 4:20pm
You’re never free from such a loss.

You’re never free from such a loss.

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