Originally posted by Gregor Samsa
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Those who continue to see beauty will never grow old"-Franz Kafka, "Blue Octavo Notebooks' (I think.)
America, I've given you everything and now I'm nothing/
-Allen Ginsberg, 'America'.
Anything that dies has had some kind of aim in life, some
kind of activity, which has worn out; but that does not apply to Odradek.
Am I to suppose, then, that he will always be rolling down the stairs, with
ends of thread trailing after him, right before the feet of my children,
and my children's children? He does no harm to anyone that one can see; but
the idea that he is likely to survive me I find almost painful.
-Franz Kafka, 'The Cares Of A Family Man' http://www.geocities.com/rowsofhouses/familyman.txt
Be a worldchild, form a circle, before we all go under-Thom Yorke, 'Street Spirit (Fadeout)'
. America is one of my favourite Ginsberg poems.
Youve sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.
Thats right, sir, I said, smoking one of this kind mans cork-tipped cancers.
They always bite off too much, he said, drying a plate like absentmindedly. But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
- "A Clockwork Orange", Anthony Burgess
she said: "Eh, I know you and you cannot sing"
I said: "that's nothing - you should hear me play piano"
- "The Queen is Dead", the Smiths
Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes
Unified collapse of everything inside
We understand but can't accept
We are not dead cos we hate
- "Love's Sweet Exile", Manic Street Preachers
Are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression?
- "Kool Thing", Sonic Youth
