“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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A Vivid Promise
Tag: #Wednesday Quotes
Not a Seagull, a River Neckar Gull
Wordless Wednesday
Where Would I Cycle Without Bridges?
I’ve gone off on a tangent, I admit, but once I found the Jack London quote I just had to.
“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash up. Well, now, that’s something! And then go home again after three hours of it…and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
Jack London
Although there were motorbikes as early as 1885, the way Jack London describes it I believe he was talking about cycling. Which is also born out by a number of mountain bike tracks named after the author.
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The Good Order
“WE KNOW THERE IS NO GOOD ORDER EXCEPT THAT WHICH WE CREATE.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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Why Not, Indeed?
“So why the pelican? Said Haskoll.
Adam Rex, Unlucky Charms
The thief was giving Haskoll a look that said, Man, why NOT the pelican?”
These contraptions are cleaning the water of the local lake (not a natural one, but excavated) and are called pelicans. A part of the function is to circulate the water from below to the surface.
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Godless and Immoral
“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose
The title is by Robert Burns (so in a manner of speaking, you get two for one today) but the photo illustrates this quote:
Love and a red rose can’t be hid.
Thomas Holcroft
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One Beggar’s Tartan Is another One’s Purple Cloak
He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
Many Inventions (1893) ‘The Finest Story in the World’
Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions (1893) ‘The Finest Story in the World’
Wednesday Quotes #4: Envelope or Envelop
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I Believe My God Is Laughing at Me
“One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
My favourite book by Heinlein is “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”. “Time Enough for Love” is from the same period and has now been added to my to-be-read pile.
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