“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.” BookDifferentBodyEyeMovingMemoriesAnimalPromiseCreaturesCompetitionComplexesSurfaceNervousBreastsGasMortalityShoreHostJuiceCompoundsSystematicNervous SystemParasitesVisceralDeliriumLapsesInvoluntaryNarratorsMutation Book:The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress Source: The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress
“Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.” PeopleWorldMindBodyAnswersDoubtSeeingPromiseUnderstoodGhostLikesComforting Author:Michael Marshall Smith
“Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.” BodyReligionBitsPromisePossessionCornersQuittingIslandsParadiseImaginaryCheeseTemptedChimneys Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.” HumansMeanMatterBodyAsksEnergyGivenAnswersConsciousnessGeniusPromiseOceanYour BodyCellsEvolveManifestationPreferenceBlossomingAmoeba Author:Esther Hicks
“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.” KnowsTryingI CanMomentsBodyAmericaLyingForceNationsChallengesEffortCareersGreatnessPromiseHarderStartingPrivilegeDeeperYour BodyShyEndeavorDig DeepTroubled Times Author:Barack Obama