The mEmorY of the SenSeS

Any hint of flavor, just a hint, leads through a tunnel back
to a light: the memory of my favorite stew. I never had words for it
in the first, although when I am inebriated with memory,
emotions about the ghostly meal rattle around.

-JeFF WeinsTein 'Thyme and Word Enough'

Don't Judge tHE Book by its Cover in Oscar Wilde's version

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible (taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Stillness

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh or fleshless.
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

---TS. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"

What we sEE, What We Say

What we see never lies in what we say (Foucault).

tHe Memory of tHINGS

[The past is] somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect,
and unmistakably present in some material object (or in sensation
which such an object arouses in us), though we have no idea which
one it is. As for that object, it depends entirely on chance
whether we come upon it before we die or whether we never
encounter it.

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

Look Through and See Beyond

This is taken from Garance Dore's, I like it so much I decided to quote it here:

The little thing that makes magic..the complexity of an adolescent...the vulnerability of a man...the strength of a child..the fragility in the determined stride of a woman...

The Ideology of Love

'Love rarely comes true, as each of us knows, and it only lasts for a time' (Lacan 1983).