Rating position
Journal created:
on 6 February 2005 (#6032335)
Updated:
on 16 February 2011
Name:
claud
Location:
United Kingdom
In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Nothing lasts for forever, with very few exceptions, and amongst these exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles.
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my writing - poetry and prose - is at
cheveril.
I'd like to be disarmingly nice and frighteningly intelligent, but I seem to stop at disarmingly and frighteningly.
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Nothing lasts for forever, with very few exceptions, and amongst these exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles.
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my writing - poetry and prose - is at
cheveril.I'd like to be disarmingly nice and frighteningly intelligent, but I seem to stop at disarmingly and frighteningly.
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