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[La beauté du diable]
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René Clair
France, 1950
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
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Saturday, April 29, 2023
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Friday, April 28, 2023
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
BILL MOLLISON
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Affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns - or any wasteful consumption - and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre per month for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
BILL MOLLISON
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I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. But if you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. And choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. We can do it.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Moon and Sixpence
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.
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Monday, April 24, 2023
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
TERENCE McKENNA
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Saturday, April 22, 2023
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ANGLO SAXON LAW
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Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil.
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HOMER
The Odyssey
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I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
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WC LOWDERMILK (1953)
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If the soil is destroyed, then our liberty of action and choice are gone.
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JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver's Travels
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Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind - and do more essential service to his country - than the whole race of politicians put together.
Friday, April 21, 2023
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MARGARET ATWOOD
The Robber Bride
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Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The End. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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