To the incomparable Ms. Nancy

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:44:19 GMT

Eisley - Plenty of Paper
Wanda Jackson - I Gotta Know
Françoise Hardy - L'Ombre
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Oh, My Girl
Gloria Mundi - In the Blackout

Sorry, I have no one to elect.

Friends Only.

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:17:59 GMT

"I am a sick man . . . . I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, I don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not treated and never have been, though I respect medicine and doctors. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine. (I'm suffieciently educated not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, sir, I refuse to be treated out of wickedness. Now, you will certainly not be so good as to understand this. Well, sir, but I understand it. I will not, of course, be able to explain to you precisely who is going to suffer in this case from my wickedness; I know perfectly well that I will in no way "muck things up" for the doctors by not taking their treatment; I know better than anyone that by all this I am harming only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't get treated, it is out of wickedness. My liver hurts; well, then let it hurt even worse!"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

sometimes I think that I'm bigger than the sound.

To the incomparable Ms. Nancy

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