marcus
They wear the colours of reason as a cloak, which hides a uniform they will not remove.
"I think what I mainly live for is contemplating the misfortunes of other people. That and vindication. Being proved repeatedly over and over again right when other people are wrong. That does a lot for me. The second thing I live for is, …
"that's not facetious, your audience which will clap apparently anything is frivolous. *responding to boos from audience* Ha fuck you, fuck you." - Christopher Hitchens
Relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.
A poem by Wilfred Owen written from memory: Bent double, like beggars under sacks, knocked-kneed coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge. Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, and towards our endless rest began to trudge. …
Your thoughts are your own. If you suspect they're not, suspect yourself.
What is it about the way I'm talking that you can't understand? "Its ingratiating tone I think, and the unctuousness of it, and the extreme imprecision of it. Yeah, I think that's probably what I don't like." - Christopher Hitchens
Lacking facility in reading and writing and ignorant of the knowledge to be gained from books. "you took up all the time for my answer with your long, rather unlettered question." - Christopher Hitchens
Endocannabinoids are substances produced from within the body that activate cannabinoid receptors. "running triggers the release of brain chemicals called endocannabinoids that create a potent feeling of pleasure." -The Economist …
The direct vote of all the members of an electorate. "General Augusto Pinchet organised a plebiscite that he was confident would grant him another eight years of absolute power." - The Economist
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel" - W. Shakespeare
Recently I realised: one is only ever four minutes from accidentally killing themselves.