They were fortunate at Sellanrå, every fall and spring, in seeing the graylag geese sailing in formation over the wilderness and hearing their chatter high in the air—it sounded like someone talking in delirium.
Domi & JD Beck - "Flim" (by Aphex Twin) cover @ Casa del Jazz, Rome
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Sightings of certain animals necessitated a blessing, if one saw, for example, “an elephant, an ape, or a long-tailed ape”. Upon these, one says, “Blessed is He who makes strange creatures”.
— Elpidorou (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom
Johnsen suggests that boredom arises when the kinetic tension between two sides of the equation becomes unbalanced, and we lose sight of either the melody that ties everything together or of the variety that adorns that unifying melody.
Smoking weed in Stalin's Russia sounds like an excellent recipe for encountering the worst paranoia any man has ever felt. 👁️👁️
Lead me, O Zeus, and thou O Destiny,
The way that I am bid by you to go:
To follow I am ready. If I choose not,
I make myself a wretch, and still must follow.














