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May 2007

Time passes but the questions remain

After more than 20 years, the question remains the same:
Is it a formality or a question of quality?

PostSecret

Note: the background image is taken from here, one of the most beautiful little books in the known universe.

Clear, right?

xlthlx: sgnek
maroffo: ZOT!
xlthlx: urgh
maroffo: umhpf
xlthlx: ziiiiiing!
maroffo: LOFF!
(I won with this one)
xlthlx: splat.
Oh yes,
indeed splat
maroffo: gh...

I have to

Thanks to dear Stone, I follow up on the meme of the moment: list five favourite literary incipits.

1. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

2. For a week Mr....

Who has teeth

xlthlx (21.12): I say
xlthlx (21.12): tonight would be a night to fuck the world
xlthlx (21.12): it’s pouring.
xlthlx (21.12): but it’s not
Mik (21.12): shit
Mik (21.12): when it’s pouring, it’s the best
xlthlx (21.12): I have to make do with a hot bath
xlthlx (21.12): Oh yes
Mik (21.13): lights off but shutters up
xlthlx (21.13): there is also thunder
Mik (21.13): with rain and lightning outside
Mik (21.13): deadly
xlthlx (21.13): Exactly
Mik (21.13): Look,...

It is called projection

‘Someone wants to open a creeping war, a new season of tension. ‘

Projection is an archaic and primitive defence mechanism that consists of shifting one’s own feelings and parts of oneself onto other objects or persons. (…)
Although for psychoanalysis projection as a psychic process is regarded as a universal modality of psychism, Freud relies primarily on this mechanism of the psyche to account for certain psychopathological phenomenologies,...