Any other hobbies besides suffering?” By Bob Mankoff

Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, 1968.

"If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow." Ikkyu (一休) (image: Yokoyama Taikan)

"Coming, going, the waterbirds don't leave a trace don't follow a path." Dogen (道元) (waterbirds, Settai Komura)

Pier Paolo Pasolini on the use of Metaphors in Cinema: "Interviewer: Previously when you talked about the shift from writing to making a movie, you said the only big change was the lack of metaphor in the cinema. Do you still think this is the biggest problem? Pasolini: Well,

every step I take is my home Dogen

In the court in the forenoon I received great applause for my spirited behaviour yesterday; and I could also see Scottish envy showing itself. John Reid received his sentence at two o'clock, or rather a little before three. (2 Aug 1774)

Sunday moods

Les anges de Giotto

go ahead make love! summer cicadas Issa

S’il excellait dans les rôles de premier de cordée au sang froid dans la vraie vie c’était évidement tout à rebours un homme délicieux Gérard extraordinairement cultivé fine gueule comme pas permis d’une inoxydable fidélité et d’une rare délicatesse Pensées pour les siens

Best use of a real song on the The Simpsons?

Open Windows by Matisse

Dharma 🔥

I mean we all been there

the blue ocean waves smelling of wine full moon Basho

One of England's very greatest living poets, by the way.

“To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.” —Michel Houellebecq

“This world always was, and is, and shall be, an ever living fire.” — Heraclitus