* add touching the void quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
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--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
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@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed].
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
 partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
 purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
 partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
 purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.

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+%

 The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
 freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
 due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental
 The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
 freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
 due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental


@@ -1035,3 +1035,34 @@ agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
 [C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
 It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
  -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
 [C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
 It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
  -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4

+%
+Your absence has gone through me
+Like thread through a needle.
+Everything I do is stitched with its color.
+ -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107
+%
+Logs drowse in the pond
+Dreaming of their heroes
+Alligator and crocodile
+ -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77
+%
+Once, our bodies were bells:
+Simply moving in the wind
+We tolled our names.
+ -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55
+%
+It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
+Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
+ -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
+%
+I would like to be the air
+that inhabits you for a moment
+only. I would like to be that unnoticed
+& that necessary.
+ -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140
+%
+I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless
+thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It
+looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing.
+[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything.
+ -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117