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Descensus Averno facilis est

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

for years I thought this was just a rumour

'The Cramps, punks, Californian mental patients. The concert of a nembutol delirium. The lines blur, everyone dances.'

Posted by Moira Russell at 1:28:00 AM

Labels: charms to soothe the savage breast, music, the cramps, things what are awesome, youtubery

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The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.

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Parue -- nec inuideo -- sine me, liber, ibis in urbem:
Little book, go without me – I don’t begrudge it – to the city.
ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!
Ah, alas, that your master’s not allowed to go!

— Ovid, Tristia, I.i, tr A.S. Kline

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"We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." -- Henry James

Moira's to-read book montage

A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories

A Life of One's Own: A Guide to Better Living Through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer

Virginia Woolf's Women

Travels with Virginia Woolf

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

The Jungle Books

The Jungle Books

Carrie Kipling 1862-1939: The Hated Wife

The Hearts and Lives of Men

Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues

The Nice and the Good

The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists. Based upon the Romanes Lecture

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mothers and men

Hither rushed all the throng, streaming to the banks; mothers and men and bodies of high-souled heroes, their life now done, boys and unwedded girls, and sons placed on the pyre before their fathers’ eyes; thick as the leaves of the forest that at autumn’s first frost drop and fall, and thick as the birds that from the seething deep flock shoreward, when the chill of the year drives them overseas and sends them into sunny lands.

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