Journal created:
on 7 February 2001 (#54224)
Updated:
on 16 April 2018
Name:
Hunter
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Big Comfy Chair is love.
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am 50, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things - including the fear of childishness and the desire to be grown-up." -- C. S. Lewis
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable." -- Matilda Wormwood / Roald Dahl, Matilda
"The world was so freaky, he felt. Really very freaky indeed and no one was doing much about it." -- Paul Zindel, The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable." -- Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity
"The little things are infinitely the most important." -- Ibid.
"lincoln bowl", '80s cartoons, aestheticism, ai no kusabi, anachronisms, ara-chan, arthurian legend, aubrey beardsley, baiting the major, batman, being more sonic, beryl markham, bishoujo senshi sailor cthulhu, blackadder, bloom county, buffy the vampire slayer, buttons mcboomboom, cabbageman, calvin and hobbes, carnation-wearers, catatonia, charles baudelaire, chaucer-o's, choop choop, circumlocution olympics, crocodile günter, cthulhu, cthulhuface, curry, cynicism, dateless wonders, david bowie, decadence, deductive reasoning, deffective neuters, dinosaurs, doctor who, douglas adams, dwight schultz, dysentery pie, eroica = plucky duck, evelyn waugh, existentialism, fake, from eroica with love, fry & laurie, gangin' agley, gary oldman, ghostbusters, gokusen, googling you, grammar, h.p. lovecraft, hannibal lecter, heese, hellsing, holes in my ceiling, horses, i'm batman, iggy pop, indoor vultures, intriguing_vomits_i_have_had, jeeves and wooster, joe orton, john cale, john stuart mill, johnny bourgeois, klingon, led zeppelin, library ninjas, lou reed, lucky lizards, lust eaters, m*a*s*h, manic street preachers, medieval europe, michel de montaigne, monty python, my bff stegosaurus, mythology, nagasaki, ncis, old english, old norse, ooh_what's_in_that_sack, oscar wilde, p. g. wodehouse, pet shop of horrors, piracy, pogo by walt kelly, pre-raphaelites, professor hill, purple space octopus, purple wobblies, rammstein, red dwarf, renaissance dilettante, revolutionary girl utena, robert burns, robert plant, robert's cell phone, sandman, secular humanism, secularism, severus snape, sherlock holmes, shiina ringo, sir arthur conan doyle, skanky spanish pie-rats, slytherclaw, snark, society_for_the_protection_of_endangered_doilies, space molester, sparkly '70s shoujo, spock, squirrel liberation, star trek, swinburne, t. h. white, t. s. eliot, tea. earl grey. hot., tentacles: destroyer of worlds, the a-team, the beatles, the clash, the primal cow, the ramones, the sex pistols, the smiths, the velvet underground, the x-files, they might be giants, tolkien, tom waits, torchwood, trogdora the explorer, tuna as a safeword, unconventional mailbombs, utilitarianism, vampires, victorian england, vietnam war, walter pater, waying_laste_to_the_land, western riding, yard sharks