Youth Lagoon - July
Perhaps the history of errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field, the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.
—Benjamin Franklin, via Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. Airplane reading.
The dominant passion was the acquisition of knowledge, skill, mastery of technique, inexhaustible experience, but like a subdominant chord there existed steadily in the back of my head vibration which meant order, beauty, simplification, enjoyment, appreciation. Reading Van Gogh’s letters I identify with him in the struggle to lead a simple life, a life in which art is all. How glowingly he writes about his dedication to art in his letters from Arles, a place I am destined to visit later though reading about it now I don’t even dream of ever seeing it. To give a more musical expression to one’s life - that is how he puts it.
—Plexus, Henry Miller (via fulgurous)
Why did Kim Jong Il have to die before Christmas?
Because Rudolph is the true deer leader.
