Vacation from work has finally come, however many times I am asked to log in to fix something or another… but to the pool I have been finally able to relax by. Not five minutes into my “relaxing” my eyes caught sight of a pigeon who had been near the pool a bit too long for it to be OK. I quickly got up and grabbed a towel from the bathroom, came out and scooped up the pigeon who was completely at ease with me handling it. I held him for a long time, checking his wings to see if they were broken, trying to give him water, but to no avail, he looked completely fine but almost as if he were lost or dazed. So I made him a nice little bed on top of the towel basket, set him up with some water and when our lunch was brought to us, gave him some bread before anyone took a bite. Well, I got to talking with the little fellow, Craig thinking I’m nuts and all, but he seemed to respond a bit. After a few bites of my sandwich I notice that the other pigeons in the area were making quite some noise and Marvin (which I named him) was looking around as if they were talking to him. He ruffled his feathers in my direction and after another moment, flew off into the breeze. Everyone at the pool was extremely happy that he was OK.
“Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place – then it won’t make a damn.”
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“Obviously, according to this principle, man does not have free will. There is no use in his indulging in a lifelong competition to change the structure of the little environment he seems to be trapped in. But one could see the larger pattern and move with it – Go with the flow! – and accept it and rise above one’s immediate environment and even alter it by accepting the larger pattern and grooving with it – Put your good where it will do the most!”
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“My own character is of little consequence. It is the character of others which concerns me. I devote a great many hours of the study of it.”
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies