but what will they think?...
you ask your self...
"they'll think terrible things about me"...
what the hell did you think they were going to think?...
they think terrible things about you anyhow...
that's what thinking is about...
it's about terrible things...
i know what you're thinking...
no?
do you believe in intuition?...
most people say yes.
do you believe in esp?...
most people say no.
if there's nothing to esp...
why has the c.i.a. and military
spent so much time and money on it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stargate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
I wish my eyes weren't opened
because now that they are
I will have to do something
about the evil I see in the world
"Darmok on the ocean.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
The beast at Tanagra.
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.
Kiteo, his eyes closed.
Temba, his arms wide/open.
Temba, at rest.
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered/opened.
The river Temarc in winter.
Zinda, his face black, his eyes red.
Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani.
Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya.
Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha.
Lungha, her sky gray.
Uzani, his army with fists open.
Uzani, his army with fists closed."
"Everything is burning.
What is burning?
The eyes are burning.
Everything seen by the eyes is burning.
The ears are burning.
What is burning?
Everything heard by the ears is burning.
The nose is burning.
Smells are ablaze.
The tongue is burning.
Tastes are ablaze.
The body is burning.
The mind is burning."
Buddha
D. Max Moerman, scholar: "We’re on fire; we may not know it but we’re on fire and we have to put that fire out. We’re burning with desire, we’re burning with craving. Everything about us is out of control."
W.S. Merwin, poet: "The Buddha goes on to talk about the three poisons: greed, and anger, and ignorance, and how the three poisons are what is making the fire, and the way out of doing this is not to deny the three poisons, but to recognize that if you turn them around, you come to their opposites."
Instead of greed, you have generosity; instead of anger, you have compassion; and instead of ignorance, you have wisdom.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
Mark Twain’s Autobiography or The Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a proper autobiography.
The first edition of the entire manuscript is scheduled for publication in November 2010, the 100th anniversary year of Twain’s death, edited by the The Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley and published by University of California Press.
Twain first started to compose an autobiography in 1870, but proceeded fitfully, abandoning the work and returning to it as the mood took him. In a 1904 letter to William Dean Howells, he wrote: "I’ve struck it! And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." By 1904 Twain had embarked on what he called his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. However, after 1907 he again seems to have let the book languish; in 1908-9 he hardly added to it at all, and he declared the project concluded in 1909, after the death of his youngest daughter Jean. His innovative notion — to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment" — meant that his thoughts could range freely. Twain thought his autobiography would be most entertaining if he went off on whims and tangents in non-sequential order.
Twain outlined a plan in 1899 for an autobiographical work which was to be published (according to different accounts of the episode) either "100 years from now" or "100 years after his death." A manuscript note in the Mark Twain Papers (UC Berkeley) indicates a 100-year ban was what he was contemplating. Twain did produce a preface 'From the Grave' claiming that the book would not be published until after his death, which allowed him to speak with his "whole frank mind." (read more) (nytimes)
