I WANTED TO BONE THE FOUNDING FATHERS
--Me, aloud
Don't. Even. Ask.
I WANTED TO BONE THE FOUNDING FATHERS
--Me, aloud
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'once upon a time' lasts forever."
--Philip Pullman
"Make Good Art."
-Neil Gaiman
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--From "Ulysses" by Tennyson
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.--"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
"Bilbo is absolutely the heart of the story. He's the beating heart of the story that you want to protect and you want to make sure survives. Thorin is the soul, really. He's the experience, he's the spirit of the dwarves and their kingdom and this whole bowl that holds the heart in their hands. And that's how I see it. And they sit in harmony with each other, I think, and are changed by each other."--Richard Armitage
I'm thinking of Ebert's words on '2001':"Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape. Most movies are about characters with a goal in mind, who obtain it after difficulties either comic or dramatic. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is not about a goal but about a quest, a need. It does not hook its effects on specific plot points, nor does it ask us to identify with Dave Bowman or any other character. It says to us: We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet but among the stars, and that we are not flesh but intelligence."
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."- J.R.R. Tolkien
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