The Slab: Sep 14, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Nectar

Wasp (Polistes dominulus) on a Lilium plant
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Ex cathedra

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
-- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

A fond remembrance: "Road House" is a delight to watch because it's one of the best truly awful films made in the past few decades -- and quasi-homoerotic to boot. The shirtless fight scenes are just ridiculous. But any guy who could unabashedly star in that insane movie couldn't be all bad. Alas, farewell Patrick. We hardly knew ye.

Patrick Swayze Dies
By Anita Gates, The New York Times, September 14, 2009

Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” and whose 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer drew wide attention, died Monday. He was 57. . . .

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Our problems, both those we experience externally such as wars, crime and violence and those we experience internally as emotional and psychological suffering will not be solved until we address this underlying neglect of our inner dimension. That is why the great movements of the last hundred years and more--democracy, liberalism, socialism, and Communism--have all failed to deliver the universal benefits they were supposed to provide, despite many wonderful ideas. A revolution is called for, certainly, but not a political, an economic, or a technical revolution. We have had enough experience of these during the past century to know that a purely external approach will not suffice. What I propose is a spiritual revolution.

~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
~ William Faulkner, speech at the Nobel Banquet, City Hall, Stockholm, December 10, 1950

Monday, September 14, 2009

Likely permanent

Piece of that.

Handy

Nectar

Ex cathedra

Off to the final dance floor

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