Posts Tagged ‘Alienation’

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Zero World

by Seraphine Khorana on September 6th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Zero World

When you lose direction (velocity), you’re susceptible to Zitterbewegung, or that jittery existence between positive and negative energy. Some call it ambivalence, others describe it as lethargy. It’s not being able to move in any direction.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can’t move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
Quotation from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Yammering

by Seraphine Khorana on August 28th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Yammering

I hate yammering. It’s embarrassing. Somebody teach me not to be psycho.

All day in the one chair
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged
In rambling talk with an image of air:
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
Poem by W.B. Yeats, Broken Dreams

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A Peep Out of Me

by Seraphine Khorana on August 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
A Peep Out of Me

1. Make some noise. It’s life affirming.
2. “What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind.”
3. Years from now, nobody will remember anyway.

Come, come, come, come, give me your hand.
What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
Spoken by Lady Macbeth, The Tragedy of Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare

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It’s like living in a van down by the river, only without the van

by Seraphine Khorana on March 26th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
It’s like living in a van down by the river, only without the van

If wireless is the future, will I feel even more disconnected?

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity. The only real dignified human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
Quotation from Mahatma Gandhi

You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.
Lyrics from Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody

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The Alternative to Natural Childbirth

by Seraphine Khorana on August 11th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
The Alternative to Natural Childbirth

This is dedicated to Chase, who is due in 21 days
and to Blitzi who is due in November.
It was inspired by Dandellion, who suggests babies
come from storks and can be found in cabbage patches.

Should You Examine Your Own Cervix? (Fool Search)

She bit the towel and called on God
and I saw her life stretch out.
I saw her torn in childbirth,
and I saw her, at that moment,
in her own death and I knew
that she knew.
Poem by Anne Sexton, Pain for a Daughter

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