So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
David MitchellTags: wisdom perspective learning-from-mistakes postmodern postmodernism loser improvement cloud-atlas winner
In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.
David Mitchellscience devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
David MitchellOnly the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.
David MitchellOur brains are dark globes lit by very distant stars.
David MitchellOh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?
David Mitchell...where there's Hilo, oh, there's blissweed.
David MitchellPerpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
David MitchellThe last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
Tags: life philosophy perfect
To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.
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