cheap glory

Cheap glory isn't quite so cheap.
You pay, with the years in
Your life.

-- No, that's not it.
The years of being
Nobly enslaved are but
Peanut sacrifices.
(Nobility, you know)

--You pay,
with the
Life
In
Your
Years

‘I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education’

This time, I'm very glad for my very worrying indifference!

Uh, and so I leave myself with these golden words of Wisdom:

If good, be glad, for thou deserve it for having worked hard;

If bad, be glad, for thou deserve it for not having worked hard enough.

If all fails, think of Mark Twain.

Heheh

"to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"

Simplicity please

The clock's ticking steadily to a shallow revelation

Elsewhere the clock's ticking to a different end—an endless end.

But enough of forever seeking and twisting and turning in ambiguities—simplicity is a virtue!

You long for something certain, absolute—you long for salvation—but—no. The shutter snaps close once again. Not salvation, no; it's difficult not to be suspicious of something so absolute, so grand, so marvellous.

Enough, also, of deep waters and inward spirals. Of peeling everything apart in search of the finest shades of truth. Of peeling yourself apart only to grow more and more suspicious of yourself.

Simplicity is salvation!

Oh, silly, silly, us. So buried deep in ourselves and yet so ignorant of ourselves.

but we prefer warmth, anyway

The overwhelming urge is to turn away from the world of living things and fatal subtleties.

It's simpler, and easier, and safer, though colder, to lean your everyday against a something which does not move, breathe, or feel.

‘Doomed to the old effort at serious living’

I wish just to live easy;

and pray, secretly, that my wish shall never be fulfilled.

To live easy's the hardest thing, you see.

too colourful, this world.

should always remember, to separate the yes and nos from the possiblys and the probablys and the maybes and the i-hope-it-could-bes.

and the used-to-bes from the is and the will-bes and the might-bes.

and the yes! from the well...i guess...and the no...?s from the Nos.