July 3, 2010
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Some Say!
Hey Chris!
So recently I woke up at 4 am with a sharp pain in my gut. Not my stomach exactly but just above it, behind the top 2 abdominals. Had me writhing in pain for an hour, thinking I’d have to call in sick and get looked at. Then it went away, just in time to leave me fit for work and deprived of an hour’s sleep. Awesome.
Day 4: Your Favourite Quote
If you look at my Facebook “favourite quotes” section you’ll find a whole legion of these. But I’m gonna have to go with these 2:
Angelus: “Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love…. The clarity of hatred….. The ecstasy of grief…. It hurts sometimes more than we can bare. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But… we’d be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank….. Without passion, we’d truly be dead.”
(Buffy The Vampire Slayer)In terms of quotes from fiction this would probably be the main one. It was in one of my favourite Buffy episodes ever; Passion. The episode was narrated by Angel, now soulless and reverted to his purely vampiric persona, Angelus. It was a massive turning point in Season 2 and really powerful and moving.
JK Rowling: (Harvard Commencement Speech) “many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. they choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are… they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally…
whats more those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our own apathy.”I just have endless admiration for Joanne Rowling. Not just cos I love her books but from what I know of her as a person. If I have a ‘hero’ it’s probably her. I share her morals and ethics to a T, it seems, and I can find nothing to disagree with in this remarkable woman. This quote just hits the nail on everything I think is wrong with the human race, at the core; the willful inability to empathise with another, to concern yourself with anything other than your own personal experiences and, worse than that, the arrogance to then call judgement on others from that position of personal ignorance.
Comments (2)
lmao. hi david! that really took me off guard.
and she’s an infp. because we rock like that. excellent quote. i should read through that transcript again.
she’s a pretty cool lady indeed. possibly the understatement of the year?
yeah, so i had no idea you’d started updating again until now, so i just caught up on your previous entries. I had just caught up on all of chris’ right before i came here, too. the thirty day writing thing seems like a pretty nice exercise in consistency and creativity.