Someone take these dreams away
that point me to another day
A duel of personalities
That stretch all true reality

Nine Inch Nails (Joy Division) - Dead Souls

Boredom is really a psychic defense protecting us from ourselves, from complete paralysis, by repressing, among other things, the meaning of that place, which in this case has always been horror

1996, American Psychology, Helen Hodge (p. 297), 2000, The House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

As roleplaying is not about telling stories, but experiencing them, there needs to be an element of chance: a time when nobody knows what’s going to happen, not even the Game Master.

Mike Pohjola, Star Wreck Roleplaying Game.

«But I don't want to go among mad people,» Alice remarked.
«Oh, you can't help that,» said the Cat: «we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.»

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Kun sinä katsot syvyyteen, silloin myös syvyys katsoo sinuun

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are myth-places. They exist, each in their own way. Some of them are overlaid on the world; others exist beneath the world as it is, like an underpainting.

There are mountains. They are rocky places you will reach before you come to the cliffs that border the end of the world, and there are caves in those mountains, deep caves that were inhabited long before the first men walked the earth.

They are inhabited still.

Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys, Chapter four

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke (Wikipedia)

13:11 Kun minä olin lapsi, niin minä puhuin kuin lapsi, minulla oli lapsen mieli, ja minä ajattelin kuin lapsi; kun tulin mieheksi, hylkäsin minä sen, mikä lapsen on.

1. Korinttolaiskirje

No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Sielu ja Uusi kone

Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0

Koska kyseessä oli perinteinen "pisteestä A pisteeseen B" -kanoottireissu, he olivat liikkeellä kahdella autolla.

Lapin kansa 14.12.2008