Our Wasted Lives

To quote one of my kids,

"it is 1.34am
someone, somewhere inside me
is still fighting the _____ Wars
time in desert: 1573 days, 1 hour, 34 mins, 14 secs
no. of recruits: 1
hello, suck.

I might evaporate soon
but I'm still in the desert
fighting."

Stone

This was taken from Lucas' blog. I was quite touched.

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Robin: how do you do this ted? how do you sit out here all night, on the roof, in the cold, and still have faith your pumpkin's gonna show up?

Ted: well, i'm pretty drunk. heh. look i know the odds are the love of my life isnt going to magically walk through that door in a pumpkin costume at two forty three in the morning, but. its not about the odds. It's about believing. This girl, she... she represents something to me, I don't know... hope.


omg this post is so shane

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(:

Cath

Soon everybody will ask what became of you.

Cuz your heart was dying fast

And you didn't know what to do.

The centre cannot hold.

The Enemy

I need someone to go with me this time.

The Sound of Settling

He struck me as one of upmost vanity; a manner of courtesy and warmth of hospitality so uncommon, yes, but an epicurean taste for life. Beyond the luxuries dawned upon his aristocratic body, there was a hidden aura of a different kind of pride; a quiet one. It was fierce, it was cunning, it was intelligent, it was manipulative, it was brilliant. And all those qualities would always be him.

He floated to my side, and spoke in the firmest of whispers, "what would you like to find out?"

The full force of a hurricane blasted all thoughts out of my mind and it was left in a devastation of nothingness. The intensity was so fierce, I thought I was in 1789 again. 

A different time. A same time.

I could not remember what I asked, but to which he gave the following reply, "I want people to find out what clothes I liked to wear, what food I liked to eat. All the trivialities of my life, right up to the colossal institutions that hold up more than my mere individual self, I want the people to want to find out with a ferocity of passion."

He asked me about my life, and I told him. And in his reply, in those few, simple words, he changed everything.

"Surely there must be more to it."

The sound of settling has to be murdered.

Good Time

Everybody knows that we're gonna have a good time again.

The tide that left and never came back

I might be an idealist, but please don't think I'm an idiot.

Social solidarity.

The Nowhere Man

Do you think France could have entered the Peace Treaty talks without Talleyrand?

What happens when he leaves?

Grapevine Fires

"He had welcomed it before the Revolution,

he had pursued it under the Feuillant Government and under the Girondins,

from exile he had urged it upon Danton,

during the Directorate he had endeavoured to return to it,

and under the Consulate he had promoted it at the Peace of Amiens;

he had remembered it at Erfurt and supported it against Napoleon

in good and evil days.

This policy,

the alliance with England and Austria

based upon the common interest of those three Powers

in the maintenance of peace

and in the avoidance of any alteration of existing frontiers,

he believed to be in the best interests

of France as well as Europe."

One of my top 3 favourite European History figures.