“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.” WorldChildrenFacesUsedAnimalWonderClassBoysWatchesFantasyMiddleAdventureCloudsGiantsMiddle ClassDragonsCastlesMundaneMiddle Class Life Author:Barry B. Longyear
“The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.” NeedsJesusChurchReligiousClassMiddleAdventureWake UpEmbraceFolksMiddle ClassFearfulExileGhettoPassivity Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMovingDifferencesClassMediaPolicyAdventureInvolvedCivilizationApproachSmartSolutionsManagementDon't BelieveEstablishmentPanicAgricultureApocalypseStarvationSmart PeopleHuman CivilizationClass Differences Author:Terence McKenna
“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.” SongClassBoysMiddleAdventureMaterialsMeetingsWideLondonQueensMiddle ClassDragDrag QueenTransvestites Author:Marc Almond
“I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.” WritingI CanStoriesClassFocusAdventureStructureAssumingThemeWorking ClassFeatsSwedishStockholmCockneys Author:Karin Tidbeck
“I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."” WorldNeedsBelieveAbleI BelieveClassCourageRiskMiddleThis WorldAdventureMiddle ClassMiddle Class Family Author:Joan Miro