Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.
T.S. Eliot
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
reading writing prose
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
relationships
Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen.
life destiny religion god-s-will
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence
silence word
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
wishes truth memories
truth
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
information life wisdom knowledge
Where is the Life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
life wisdom knowledge
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
writing
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
age past fall nostalgia aging
I grow old I grow old I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
aging
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -But all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover -But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplationOf the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effableEffanineffableDeep and inscrutable singular Name.
individuality names cats
He is quiet and small, he is blackFrom his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crackHe can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack, He is equally cunning with dice; He is always deceiving you into believingThat he's only hunting for mice. He can play any trick with a corkOr a spoon and a bit of fish-paste; If you look for a knife or a forkAnd you think it is merely misplaced -You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn. And we all say: OH!Well I never!Was there everA Cat so cleverAs Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
cats
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover--But the cat himself knows, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplationOf the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effableEffanineffableDeep and inscrutable singular Name.
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