Posts Tagged ‘Fear’

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The Syndrome: Never had an oncoming train swerve for me, but I keep hoping

by Seraphine Khorana on March 13th, 2009
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The Syndrome: Never had an oncoming train swerve for me, but I keep hoping

Sometimes I can’t get out of my own way. I keep thinking things will “return to normal” and I’ll get caught up, but things are never normal.

Got in the Way of a Train (New York Times, August 16, 1888)

And you are such a fool to worry like you do
I know it’s tough and you can never get enough
Of what you don’t really need now
My, oh my, you’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment and you can’t get out of it
Lyrics from U2, Stuck In A Moment

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Costa Rica, Part Two: Kiss It Goodbye

by Seraphine Khorana on January 17th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Part Two: Kiss It Goodbye

I’m ok with flying. It’s the “unscheduled landings” that make me nervous. My attitude is don’t worry too much about what could happen, because most of the time there isn’t anything you can do but pray and try to survive.

I had this dream that I was on
An airplane afraid to fly
So I tipped my head to the side and I
Whispered to this man that was in the aisle.
I said, “Do you know how long it takes before we Die?”
Lyrics from A Rocket To The Moon, Fear Of Flying

A lot of people in San Francisco tonight are going to be tied up, and thousands over the next month or so, and very few of them are going to end up in the emergency room or dead.
Quotation from “Sparky” in SFWeekly.com

Never let someone tie you up in your home on the first date.
Quotation from “Master J” in SFWeekly.com

Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light of Stars in Knickerbocker

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Vintage: Dark Highway

by Seraphine Khorana on January 12th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Vintage: Dark Highway

Everyone is vulnerable in some way, and we all experience fear. It helps to talk about it.
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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Taming the Mischievious Spirit

by Seraphine Khorana on November 14th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Taming the Mischievious Spirit

The White Cockatoo in northern Queensland is hosting a month-long “Almost Anything Goes” party to help people cope with the world’s greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. “Tough economic times call for stiff measures,” declares clothing-optional resort owner Tony Fox. “No, we’re not the Sheraton” the resort warns, but the drinks are included in the price. And think of the additional airline fees you’ll save by travelling to Australia without troublesome luggage (look Mom, no clothes!).

I am nude as a chicken neck, does nobody love me?
Yes, here is the secretary of bees with her white shop smock,
Buttoning the cuffs at my wrists and the slit from my neck to my knees.
Now I am milkweed silk, the bees will not notice.
They will not smell my fear, my fear, my fear.
Poem by Sylvia Plath, The Bee Meeting

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The Devil Made Me Do It

by Seraphine Khorana on October 21st, 2008
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The Devil Made Me Do It

What tricks does the devil play on you?

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all.
Poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth (Church of Satan)

I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Quotation from Ingmar Bergman

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Quotation from Bill Gates

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How Low Can They Go?

by Seraphine Khorana on October 18th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
How Low Can They Go?

TV.com: Do you ever watch the contestants and know they’re going to make a wrong choice or want to punch them to just take the deal?
Howie Mandel: That’s the toughest part of my job… to not throttle somebody and tell them to take the deal and get out of here now.
Quotation from Howie Mandel, regarding the television show Deal or No Deal

People come in and drink, they can afford beer, but can’t spoil themselves by having lunch.
Quotation from Kerry Hewitt, The Crown Pub, Southampton

Ask her to marry you when your face clears up.

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The Madness of Crowds

by Seraphine Khorana on October 15th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
The Madness of Crowds

When the IQ of a crowd reaches 38, I usually sell.
In financial terms, this is called a mental stop-loss.

What Comes After the Great Unwinding? (Reuters)

I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you.
Poem by Anne Sexton, The Big Boots of Pain

These I assume were words so deeply meant
They cut themselves in stone for permanent
Like trouble in the brow above the eyes:
TAKE CARE TO SELL YOUR HORSE BEFORE HE DIES
THE ART OF LIFE IS PASSING LOSSES ON.
Poem by Robert Frost, The Ingenuities of Debt

P.S. All bleeding eventually ends.

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