The teeming mass of the working class…
“I didn’t want to be in the teeming mass of the working class… I didn’t want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed…
Greed…
Worth remembering, in the clamour for tickets… “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”…
City of vultures…
“You ever get the feeling the world’s filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when…
#challengehull week 3…
Hull 2017 have teamed up with 64 Million Artists and community groups and organisations across Hull to set a weekly creative challenge to encourage everyone in the city to try something new. This week’s challenge,…
To the heart…
“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day,…
For what it’s worth…
As someone who wrangled with whatever it is I wanted to be for longer than is sensible, I think this F Scott Fitzgerald quote is beautiful. Via @ElephantEnlightenedSociety
Words…
Struggling with words these days. Had a good natter about it last night. I think owning a typewriter might help. We’ll see. “Words… They’re innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other,…
A total whatever…
“Funny how ye tell people a story to make a point and ye fail, ye fail, a total disaster. Not only do ye no make yer point it winds up the exact fucking opposite man,…
Jumping…
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” Kurt Vonnegut – If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young “In strange and uncertain times such…
Again and again…
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” Goethe – Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship…