March 2012
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“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life...”
– The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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Erratic Insatiable Inexorable Consumption
Binging is a symptom of modern society, we acknowledge and accept this.
I understand that this kind of behaviour is frequently if not always associated with psychological inadequacy and inarticulateness. Yet, knowing this does not prevent one from falling victim to such patterns of consumption.
I am aware that my erratic insatiable inexorable consumption is abnormal and quintessentially...
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Tottenham day three
My iPhone just auto corrected Tottenham to Rotten ham. iPhone autocorrect unwittingly says a lot really. The people in and around Tottenham amaze me, their attitudes alone would provide hours of quality observation. Take the little college girls, all have this ghetto persona, dress like sheep i.e they all look they have come back from a hiphop video audition, no style and no character just...
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Tottenham Day One
Today was my first day temping as a teachers’ assistant in a primary school in Tottenham, and what a day it was.
The first thing that struck me was the atmosphere in Tottenham, it’s so surreal, a place alive with soul and movement. One thinks of those ‘ghetto street’ scenes in Hollywood movies and they don’t even compare. The people, the sounds, the smells, the...
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“We’re fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
– Ram Dass (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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“If expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, why are we powerfully drawn...”
– Alain De Botton: The Consolations Of Philosophy
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“Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little”
– Epicurus
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Doubt and Self
There are times when we doubt, and that doubt stagnates our growth. The very act of doubting our own abilities becomes the very reason our abilities our stunted. As a result the self is divided in two, the self that wants and the self that doubts, the inner conflict only leads to inevitable self destruction. Ultimately man becomes nothing but an ironic self fulfilling prophecy.
Then there are...
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