I seem to be having a polyhedra type of day. _
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02:20:09 PM, Tuesday 3 July 2012

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Easter reading of Four Quartets.

Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being.
Sudden in a shaft of sunlight
Even while the dust moves
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage
Quick now, here, now, always--
Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.

From Burnt Norton by T.S. Eliot. _
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12:32:59 PM, Sunday 8 April 2012

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In my continuing quest to police quotation attribution everywhere I see it, I eyed a sign on the T the other day:

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn.

--C.S. Lewis

I thought the chances were pretty good for this one to be genuine because it was creative and bizarre enough. Tim thought churches were unlikely to be careless with their posters. Well, I don't know if either of those bits of reasoning actually works, but in a rare win for truth in quotation, this is in fact a quote from C.S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity, in the chapter entitled "The Shocking Alternative". _
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08:43:14 PM, Friday 30 March 2012

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I would like to lodge a formal complaint against this cold. I was all ready to be a productive non-sick human being. I was! And now my lungs are in rebellion and my head feels like it's stuffed with cotton. I've got enough custom Erika problems, I don't need normal problems on top of them. Then again, normal problems are at least easier to complain about. So they do have that going for them. _
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