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Provocations
"Though some go into the
night as a spoon breaks
easy water, others go head
foremost against a new
connivance; their horns
make a dry crying, like the
wings of the locust, late
come to their shedding."
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, 1936.
BEATRICE ... pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
LEONATO Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he’ll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, I, i., circa 1599
"We are living in a time when flowers
are trying to live on flowers, instead
of growing on good rain and black
loam. Even fireworks, for all their
prettiness, come from the chemistry
of the earth. Yet somehow we think
we can grow, feeding on flowers and
fireworks, without completing the
cycle back to reality."
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953.
"Some would insist that man is
primarily an economic animal
interested only in his material
well-being. This is too narrow
a view of a species which has
produced numberless brave
men and women who are
prepared to undergo relentless
persecution to uphold deeply
held beliefs and principles."
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,
‘Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours’, 4 February 1997.
