Monday 12 April 2010

A brief recollection of events

I had a flashback to pissing on the side of a church in Florence, and watching the liquid flow effortlessly through the channels created by the surrounding cobbles. It reminded me of what the idyllic canals in Venice looked and smelt like.
I was in a bad mood that day, but the romantic trickling of urine made me smile.

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It is the preoccupation of a mind governed by convention to ask "what is art?"
To search for an objectivity in the inherently mysterious. Why not ask a bird the reason why it sings? Or try to decipher the conversations of trees?

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23rd March 2010.
Today I saw 50 worms and accidentally spat on my shoe.

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There is a difference between telling someone what to think, and implying they can think in a certain way.

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People are drawn to the mysterious as curiosity supersedes everything.
If the nature of the universe presented itself to us, the nature of everything would be explained away and become meaningless.
This is why people are drawn to religion. They want the mysterious to be explained. This is precisely why art is psychologically appealing to everyone (whether they know it or not), as the art becomes a transient universe, and the artist becomes a god, there simply to create the unknown.

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It's funny how 200 people can walk past you on the street, and you won't recognise a single one, and then 200 or so more people walk past you, and you don't recognise those either.
In such a short space of time, you have forgotten 400 people.
that's pretty weird.

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It's amazing how a solitary moment can reduce significant moments of your life into seemingly unimportant events, yet simultaneously making you realise that everything you have experienced upto the immediate present, has shaped your life into something wonderful and exciting. It is the equivalent of the sensation immediately after coughing - it reinforces the feeling of not having a cough.
Sometimes, we just need the presence of a shit feeling to realise that the majority of life is actually beautiful.

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