For Awhile

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
the windows are small and the walls almost bare,
there's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.

But I know from your eyes
and I know from your smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

— Leonard Cohen 'Tonight Will Be Fine'

Motion In The Ocean

Far From Perfect

No we never met before
I'm very happy to say
Far from perfect strangers
I'd like to keep it that way

I'm not your psychoanalyst
I'd rather talk to mice
You're so easy to resist
I don't want to be nice

 — John Cooper Clarke 'I Don't Want To Be Nice'

Give And Take

Pi Eta

Hi Brasil

Brazil, also known as Hy-Brazil or several other variants, is a phantom island which features in many Irish myths. It was said to be cloaked in mist, except for one day each seven years, when it became visible but still could not be reached. It probably has similar roots to St. Brendan's Island.  Old Irish:
í: island;
bres: beauty, worth; great, mighty

Hy-Brasil is also spelled Hy-Breasal, Hy-Brazil, Hy-Breasil, Brazir and related variations. It may be the reason that the South American country, Brazil, was so named. The central image on the Brazilian flag, a circle with a channel across the center, is the symbol for Hy-Brasil on early maps.

The Scales Fell From My Eyes

He says: I've wasted my life on our stupid legend

 — Laurie Anderson 'The Dream Before'

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Endorphin Anagram

Thinking Inside The Agora

Dumb Animals

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Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
 — Philip K Dick

Fox Hat

Stones Caught In The Very Act Of Gathering Moss

People Are People

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
 — The Stranglers 'No More Heroes'

Two Maple Leaves Resting On The Way To Spawn

The Law Of Conservation Of Mass

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing,
since things require a seed to start from...
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing,
but all things return dissolved into their elements.
 — Lucretius 'De Rerum Natura'


Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
 — William Shakespeare 'The Tempest'

Where Is David Attenborough Hiding?

Façademocracy

An elected oligarchy fronting for an unelected plutocracy.

Eternity

Just The Best We Have

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge.
It's just the best we have.
In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy.
— Carl Sagan 'The Demon-Haunted World'

Eternal Dilemma Of Exispencilism

Said Hamlet to Ophelia:
'I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?'
— Spike Milligan 'A Silly Poem'

Say Woof To Drugs

Chasing Shadows

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
— William Shakespeare 'Hamlet'

The Husband Of Necessity

Doubt is the father of invention.
— Ambrose Bierce

Contrariwise

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
— David Hume

One Certainty Principle

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
— Albert Einstein

Thinking

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
— Don Marquis

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
— William James

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce

Education

Education, n, That which discloses to the wise, and disguises from the foolish, their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

Education is what’s left when you’ve forgotten everything you ever learned.
— Alan Bennett ‘Forty Years On’

'A' Levels are credentials, qualifications, the footings of your CV, your Cheat's Visa …
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'

I count exams, even for Oxford and Cambridge, as the enemy of education.
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'

The chief enemy of culture, in any school, is always the headmaster.
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
— Oscar Wilde

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
— Ambrose Bierce