To have opinions is to be ill

Just spotted the quote below quoted HERE.

"From the cosmic point of view, to have opinions or preferences at all is to be ill; for by harbouring them one dams up the flow of the ineluctable force which, like a river, bears us down to the ocean of everything's unknowing. Reality is a running noose, one is brought up short with a jerk by death. It would have been wiser to co-operate wih the inevitable and learn to profit by this unhappy state of things - by realising and accommodating death! But we don't, we allow the ego to foul its own nest. Therefore we have insecurity, stress, the midnight-fruit of insomnia, with a whole culture crying itself to sleep. How to repair this state of affairs except through art, through gifts which render to us language manumitted by emotion, poetry twisted into the service of direct insight?" 

 from 'The Avignon Quincunx' by Lawrence Durrell ('Constance' 1982)

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Yea, this we wait for, this renews us, this
Incarnates us, pale people of your dreams,
Who are but what you make us, wood or stone,
Or cold chryselephantine hung with gems
from 'Artemis to Actaeon' by Edith Wharton 1902

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"She was so earnest, saying, 'It's so scary, how a scene with actual people just goes on and on? Like on a bus? What's to stop it?' And, that wistful little-girl look in her face. 'D'you ever think how hard it is to figure what people mean when probably they don't mean anything? Not like a script. Or that the point of something happening is when probably there's no point, it just "happened"? Like the weather?' [...] ... like they were two kids together in this predicament maybe fifteen years old somehow waking up married. In that instant her body seemed to him not a woman's beautiful voluptuous body but a responsibility they jointly shared, like a giant baby."
From ‘Blonde’ by Joyce Carol Oates

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ZENCORE!

Much has happened since 'Scriptus Innominatus' was first prescribed in June 2007 or found to be an ingredient in at least some reading enhancement worldwide. Reading gives you pleasure but some pleasures have to be worked for. Not all reading in the Zencore! book is easy reading. Sometimes it's quite hard. Sometimes it's just the tenacity of feathers.

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