Posts Tagged ‘Disappointment’

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The Precise Behavior of Exceptions

by Seraphine Khorana on April 12th, 2010
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The Precise Behavior of Exceptions

Did life turn out the way you thought it would be when you were a kid? What you expected is probably what you got (unless you were unlucky); and if you didn’t expect much, that is also probably what you got. But no matter how well you planned (or didn’t plan), be honest– your life didn’t turn out exactly like you thought it would happen. For better or worse, one thing is certain: There were surprises and exceptions along the way.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Quotation from Dennis Wholey

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau

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Random Testing

by Seraphine Khorana on December 26th, 2009
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Random Testing

It’s the day after Christmas. This is also a time when family violence increases. People are together more, amid the additional stresses of holiday spending and often alcohol. Don’t allow it in your life, or in the lives of your loved ones. Domestic violence is NOT acceptable, even at Christmas.

Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) if you need help or shelter.

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The Difference Between a Woman and a Banana (Dedicated to Dani)

by Seraphine Khorana on December 20th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Difference Between a Woman and a Banana (Dedicated to Dani)

How to tell the difference between a woman and a banana: 4) Bananas give off ethylene gas. 3) The average erect banana is five to seven inches long (near-sighted), but subject to premature spotting and peeling. 2) It’s a known fact that women live longer than bananas. 1) Most bananas are picked green and never properly ripen.

Question: What does the idiom “going bananas” mean?
Answer: Going crazy, losing your mind. A lack of mental stability. To go bananas is symptomatic of doing irrational things, a lack of reason.
Quotation from Answers.com

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Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

by Seraphine Khorana on November 15th, 2009
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Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

A dating website called Beautiful People only accepts new members by a popular vote of its existing members. In the past month, its members rejected almost two million hopefuls who had posted online photos of themselves. Their verdict? Swedish men and Norwegian women are the most beautiful in the world (with 76% of them accepted). Brazilians also scored high. Meanwhile, Britons are considered among the ugliest in the world, along with Russian and Polish men. The Germans also didn’t poll very well (only 14% were accepted).

Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
Poem from John Milton, Paradise Regained

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Poem from John Keats, Endymion

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The Change

by Seraphine Khorana on November 9th, 2009
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The Change

Certain people make a habit of anger. They seethe with resentment, which is very hard for them to overcome. Some psychiatrists consider this chronic bitterness to be a mental disorder called Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder. The scary fact is this happens also to “normal” people who suffer an unexpected setback such as job loss, divorce, or financial shock. I wish there was a simple, green, heart-shaped pill available to cure everyone’s anger!

They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It’s one step more complex than anger. They’re angry plus helpless.
Quotation from Dr. Michael Linden, who estimates 1% to 2% of the population meets the criterion for Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder

Embitterment is a violation of basic beliefs. It causes a very severe emotional reaction… We are always coping with negative life events. It’s the reaction that varies.
Another quotation from Dr. Michael Linden

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Waiting for Forever to Happen

by Seraphine Khorana on November 3rd, 2009
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Waiting for Forever to Happen

Regarding The Love of Your Life: Do you wait forever for perfection or settle for ‘good enough?’

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
Poem from Harriet Winslow Sewall

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Poem from John Keats

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Another One of Life’s Shining Moments

by Seraphine Khorana on October 15th, 2009
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Another One of Life’s Shining Moments

I’m on my way out, she said,
like she was picking up keys
after finishing the grocery list
and buttoning her coat
before quietly closing
the door after her.
Poem for Aunt Lucille, recently diagnosed with incurable liver cancer.

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Feelings of Impending Doom

by Seraphine Khorana on October 4th, 2009
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Feelings of Impending Doom

Maybe its the change in weather. Winter. Icy fingers inches away, ready to grab you.

An aged man now entered, and without
One word, stept slowly on, and took the wrist
Of the pale maiden. She looked up, and saw
The fillet of the priest and calm cold eyes.
Then turned she where her parent stood, and cried
“O father! grieve no more: the ships can sail.”
Poem by Walter Savage Landor, Iphigeneia

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Expectations

by Seraphine Khorana on September 25th, 2009
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Expectations

I hate when something is advertised as “FREE” but you have to buy something to get it, as in: Buy 4 and get the 5th one free. It’s not free, it’s a conditional discount.

“But you said buy two and get the third one free.”
“No, I clearly stated buy three and get two, and the sign says No Refunds or Returns on Sale Merchandise.”
“But that doesn’t make sense.”
“Dear, I couldn’t state it any clearer.”

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
Quotation from Gloria Steinem

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Rubber and Glue

by Seraphine Khorana on August 30th, 2009
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Rubber and Glue

I wish I could be more like a duck. Duck feathers have a multi-layered structure which is very hydrophobic – in other words, water rolls off a duck’s back like yesterday’s worries.

Something extraordinary must have taken place; he looks to me as if he were in imminent danger of serious apoplexy. The lower part of his face is composed enough, but the upper part is drawn and distorted. Then there is that peculiar look about the eyes that indicates an effusion of serum in the brain.
Quotation from Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot

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Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

by Seraphine Khorana on August 25th, 2009
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Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

Everyone wants full disclosure. What everyone gets is indecipherable legalese and footnotes. The general rule is: The longer the disclosure, the riskier the thing being disclosed.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Quotation from Jane Austen

(To employ a return, models and other likely readers of Encore Seraphine (either casually, temporarily, permanently, blindly or on secondment) to carry out the object of the attraction upon such terms and conditions as they may from time to time consider desirable, or not, and to terminate such extension or harmony, and to unpay their interest, readership, right to post, gratitude or miscellaneous charges out of their rich uncle’s pocket and to confer upon any mark or substitute model so appointed the right to exercise without liability or severability any discretion or misconception which may be vested in the original comic therein without prior notification, including exclusions, or vice versa).

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Unsleeping Beauty

by Seraphine Khorana on March 27th, 2009
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Unsleeping Beauty

Fairy tales often have a chaste veneer, but underneath, they read like bawdy tales told by seamen and other immoralites. In Little Brier-Rose by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, one finds suggestive images such as “When the prince approached the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large, beautiful flowers that separated by themselves, allowing him to pass through without harm.” From an adult perspective, Sleeping Beauty is a tale of puberty, transformation and sexual awakening.

Victorian readers wanted these stories to be charming, to reflect the gender roles of the time, and above all to instruct proper upper– and middle–class children in appropriate morality. Innuendo replaced the overt and troubling activity of carnal sex and violence but… these underlying themes are tenacious.
Quotation from Midori Snyder, Sleeping Beauty

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Quotation from Danielle Steel

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Why Goal-Oriented People Shouldn’t Make Lists

by Seraphine Khorana on February 20th, 2009
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Why Goal-Oriented People Shouldn’t Make Lists

Making a list is part of the process towards completing a goal. But in life, it seems prudent to make your list open-ended. Also, no matter how much time you have left, don’t hurry.

1. Witness something truly majestic 2. Help a complete stranger for a common good 3. Laugh till I cry 4. Drive a Shelby Mustang 5. Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world 6. Get a tattoo 7. Skydiving 8. Visit Stonehenge 9. Spend a week at the Louvre 10. See Rome 11. Dinner at La Cherie d’Or 12. See the Pyramids 13. Get back in touch 14. Visit Taj Mahal, India 15. Hong Kong 16. Victoria Falls 17. Serengeti 18. Ride the Great Wall of China.
Taken from the move The Bucket List

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Vintage: Ambition

by Seraphine Khorana on January 6th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Vintage: Ambition

This is another early comic.
I’m in Costa Rica for holiday. I’ll be back soon. Each day while I’m gone, I’ll present a vintage Encore Seraphine comic “rerun” from 2007. I’ve done some light editing on them, but they retain the atmosphere and content of the original. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll have lots of new adventures to share with you when I return.
Happy New Year!

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Stoolie

by Seraphine Khorana on August 27th, 2008
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Stoolie

I hate living a life of loose ends.

The first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes better… Wars, fires, plagues break up immovable routine, clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper, and open a fair field to new men. There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system allows things to take a new and natural order.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

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