the point of being alive

‎"What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?"

Kurt Vonnegut (Bluebeard)

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too busy of a schedule. too busy to upload images to the blog. this blog is a sort of measurement. and now this measurement tells me to slow down. and so shall i. after tomorrow:P as still a few dv's to capture. preperation for work in the holidays. the best thing i love about holidays is that it is a quiet time where i can work and therefore relax the most. lot of thoughts; viele exhibitions.

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
*William Butler Yeats

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
*Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

"But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond."
*Georges Bataille

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
*Jane Wagner (The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe)

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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
— Gustave Flaubert