tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091Echoes in a Hollow SpaceI'm here because I'm here because I'm herepjthompson2022-03-22T21:55:19Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:2014583Eye2022-03-22T21:55:19Z2022-03-22T21:55:19Zpublic0<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;">“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;">—Theodor Adorno, <em>Minima Moralia </em>(tr. Dennis Redmond)</span><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/eye4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7350" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/eye4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="574" height="334" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=2014583" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1973922Eyes2021-07-19T21:25:13Z2021-07-19T21:25:13Zpublic0<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;">“Jealousy and fear have big eyes.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;">—Serbian proverb</span><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6967" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="584" height="345" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1973922" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1887042Raise2020-05-01T19:38:16Z2020-05-01T19:38:16Zpublic0<strong>Random quote of the day:</strong><br /><br />“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”<br /><br />—Antonio Porchia, <em>Voices</em> (tr. W. S. Merwin)<br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/raise4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6166" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/raise4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="569" height="381" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1887042" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1878285Eyes2020-03-26T19:47:16Z2020-03-26T19:47:16Zpublic0<strong>Random quote of the day:</strong><br /><br />“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”<br /><br />—Mignon McLaughlin, <em>The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook</em><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6091" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="445" height="451" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1878285" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1847616Eyes2019-11-13T20:17:42Z2019-11-13T20:17:42Zpublic1<strong>Random quote of the day:</strong><br /><br />“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”<br /><br />—Franz Kafka, as reported by Roland Barthes, <em>Camera Lucida</em><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5773" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/eyes4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="550" height="376" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1847616" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1845435Straight2019-11-04T18:23:52Z2019-11-04T18:23:52Zpublic1<strong>Random quote of the day:</strong><br /><br />“No one looks you straight in the eye when they’re telling the truth.”<br /><br />—Sara Gran, <em>Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead</em><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/straight4WP@@@.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5757" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/straight4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="560" height="330" /></a></center><br /><br /><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1845435" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1656822Stare2017-06-27T16:49:05Z2017-06-27T16:49:05Zpublic0<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
<p>“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”</p>
<p>—Charles Bukowski, <em>What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire</em></p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/eyes4WP@@@.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4369" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/eyes4WP@@@.jpg" alt="" width="557" height="391" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/eyes4WP@@@.jpg 557w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/eyes4WP@@@-300x211.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px" /></a></center></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=4368" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1656822" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1164634Eyen2017-03-20T16:35:41Z2017-03-20T16:36:22Zpublic0<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
<p>“This world and all our powers in it are far more awful and beautiful than even we know until some accident reminds us. If you wish to perceive that limitless felicity, limit yourself if only for a moment. If you wish to realise how fearfully and wonderfully God’s image is made, stand on one leg. If you want to realise the splendid vision of all visible things—wink the other eye.”</p>
<p>—G. K. Chesterton, <em>Tremendous Trifles</em></p>
<p><center><strong> <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/eye4WP@@@.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4204" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/eye4WP@@@.jpg" alt="" width="546" height="360" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/eye4WP@@@.jpg 546w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/eye4WP@@@-300x198.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px" /></a></strong></center></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=4203" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1164634" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1090526Cheesy2016-01-27T18:13:18Z2016-01-27T18:13:18Zpublic0<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
<p>“A dinner without cheese is like a pretty woman with only one eye.”</p>
<p>—Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, <em>The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, </em>tr. L. F. Simpson</p>
<p><center><strong><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cheese4WP@@@.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-3546"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3546" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cheese4WP@@@.jpg" alt="cheese4WP@@@" width="406" height="410" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cheese4WP@@@-297x300.jpg 297w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cheese4WP@@@.jpg 406w" sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" /></a> </strong></center></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=3545" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1090526" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1037004Wide-eyed2015-04-07T16:49:51Z2015-04-07T16:49:51Zpublic0<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
<p>“Stare. It’s the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”</p>
<p>—Walker Evans, afterword, <em>Many Are Called, </em>ed. Jeff L. Rosenheim</p>
<p><center><strong> <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/stare4WP@@@.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3035" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/stare4WP@@@.jpg" alt="stare4WP@@@" width="546" height="318" /></a></strong></center></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=3034" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=1037004" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:925663Glitter magic2013-05-02T16:32:44Z2013-05-02T16:32:44Zpublic0<p><b>Random quote of the day:</b></p>
<p>“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”</p>
<p>—Roald Dahl, <i>The Minpins</i></p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/eyes4WP@@@.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2081" alt="eyes4WP@@@" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/eyes4WP@@@.jpg" width="430" height="430" /></a></center></p>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=2080" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=925663" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:848705The eyes of Akira Kurosawa2012-04-25T15:55:43Z2012-04-25T15:56:15Zpublic0<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
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<p>“There are people who criticize my work…and say it is not realistic. But I feel that merely copying the outward appearance of the world would not result in anything real—that is only copying. I think that to find what is real one must look very closely at one’s world, to search for those things that contribute to this reality which one feels under the surface. These are few and one uses them to create. These are the core around which the world moves, the axis on which it turns….To be an artist means to search for, find, and look at these things; to be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”</p>
<p>—Akira Kurosawa, quoted in <em>The Films of Akira Kurosawa </em>by Donald Richie</p>
<p><center><strong> <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/eyes4WP@@@.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1478" title="eyes4WP@@@" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/eyes4WP@@@.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="390" /></a></strong></center></p>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=1477" title="Read Original Post">Better Than Dead</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&ditemid=848705" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments