diffi_cult ([info]diffi_cult) wrote,
@ 2008-03-09 23:12:00
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Some days, I would leave this place if it were not for fear of where I would go.

Tonight's Bibliomancy:
Hunter helped her to a standing position. "Well," said Door, sleepily, "he did warn us it was strong." And then Door woke up completely, very hard, very fast. She grabbed Richard's shoulder, pointed to the device on the wall, the snaky S with the stars surrounding it. She gasped. "Serpentine," she said to Richard, to Hunter. "That's Serpentine's crest. Richard, get up! We have to run-before she find out we're here."

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere


It difficult to form attachment or a sense of determination in a world that seems to temporary. Men work and strive to create the perfect moment that will crumble. Eventually all the stones in the world will be crushed to sand and dust. Are new rocks being made?

I have trouble understanding my beliefs. Except fear. How I wanted to believe. I want to believe. How could I not? How could I not desire a glimmer of reassurance, when faced with the pistol to my head date of expiration that is the clarity of my own mortality?

Once, while on hallucinogens I slipped into a train out thought that filled me with a terrible fear of death. I do not wish to lend legitimacy to the experience, but I remember feeling that after death would come pain. A pain I felt deep in my chest. That pain rises up in me whenever I am drawn into such morbid thoughts.

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the quick and the dead
(Anonymous)
2008-03-10 04:44 pm UTC (link)
An ancient subject for meditation . . .

 3 It seems so tragic that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway. 4 There is hope only for the living. As they say, “It’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion!”
 5 The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. 6 Whatever they did in their lifetime—loving, hating, envying—is all long gone. They no longer play a part in anything here on earth. 7 So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! 8 Wear fine clothes, with a splash of cologne!
 9 Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil. 10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
-Ecclesiastes 9:3-10 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ecclesiastes%209:3-10&version=51)

-Nick

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[info]injectpixiestix
2008-03-11 03:54 pm UTC (link)
So, Neil Gaiman wrote that series with the character Door??

You know, I always wondered about that series, I forgot the name and everything.

When we were in Jr High, my friend read a couple of books from that series to me outloud for hours.

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[info]diffi_cult
2008-03-11 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Hmm... He only wrote one book with a character named Door. Neverwhere was a television show that was novelized. The Novel was released in 1996. I wonder if you are thinking of something else.

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