“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
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I got a 1.5. It said I was a whining rotter. I like the sound of that. A much lower score than my doctor's, or Richie Rich's.
Apparently i'm a liberal airhead. I think i could've been a whining rotter, but for my (optimistic) assessment that my fellow americans are having far more kinky sex than the ancient greeks and romans.
Normally I tend to think that personal behavior on average is more or less uniform throughout history, but come on. americans have got to be getting it on in more creative ways than the ancients. If only because we have more technological assistance.
Anyhow, you'd think fascists would think that was true and disapprove. I think it's great...
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