Monday, 21 February 2011

Place To Be

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
 — Joseph Campbell

Friday, 18 February 2011

The Unremunerated

Take a look you may see me on the ground
For I am the parasite of this town
 — Nick Drake 'Parasite'

Thursday, 17 February 2011

For Nothing

So the great affair is over
but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant
and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon
or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing
if you really want to go that far.
 — Leonard Cohen 'Death Of A Ladies' Man'

Like A Stray Dog In The Night, I'll Shuffle Off Alone

We all make our futures
but I have lost mine; 
I'm hoping for a miracle 
but finding no sign....
— Peter Hammill 'This Side Of The Looking-Glass'

Adrift

Adrift without a course,
it's very lonely here, 
our only conjecture 
what lies behind the dark.
 — Peter Hammill 'Childlike Faith in Childhood's End'

Between The Shadows Of His Memory

Imagine blue dissolve into the empty night
 — Neil Young 'Touch The Night'

Done

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you'd begun
When the day is done

When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life’s not made of gold
When the night is cold

When the bird has flown
Got no-one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird has flown

When the game’s been fought
Newspaper blown across the court
Lost much sooner than you would have thought
Now the game’s been fought

When the party’s through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn’t do the things you meant to do
Now there’s no time to start anew
Now the party’s through

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

 — Nick Drake 'Day Is Done'

Losing My Religion

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Thinking Outside The Agora

The Thought Occurs


 

Einstein's Riddle

There are 5 houses of 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. Each of the 5 residents drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigar, and keeps a certain pet. None of them have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

Clues:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The resident of the green house drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The resident of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The resident of the centre house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The person who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The person who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
The person who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The person who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.