There are some who call me...Tim

An outlet for ontological insecurity.

~ Sunday, June 3 ~

“ Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn’t come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers… This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people…. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business!

— Howard Beale

~ Friday, June 1 ~

(Source: youtube.com)

~ Wednesday, May 30 ~

“ Although, there’s me just reading “Girls” as “Guys, Tacitly.

— TD

~ Monday, May 21 ~

“ But it seems like, what I want is not to have to take any action. I don’t want to have to say, “Would you like to come back to the hotel?” I want them to say, “I am coming back to the hotel. Where is your hotel?” None of ‘em do that.
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It’s more just, I can’t stand to look like I’m actively trading on this sexually. Even though of course that’s—I would be happy to do that.

— David Foster Wallace

~ Friday, May 18 ~

“ The texture of this world is made up of necessity and chance. Human reason holds the balance between them, treating necessity as the basis of existence, but manipulating and directing chance, and using it. Only if our reason is unshakeable, does man deserve to be called a god of the earth. Woe to him who, from youth on, is prone to find arbitrariness in necessity and ascribes a certain reasonableness to chance and accepts this religiously. For that amounts to denying one’s rational self and giving free play to one’s feelings. We think we are god-fearing people if we saunter through life without much thought, we let ourselves be carried along by happy chance, and then finally declare that our wavering existence was a life governed by divine guidance.

— Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

~ Thursday, May 17 ~

“ But the danger of being uncreative—what do you say? Is it truly still a danger, or already a fixed and settled fact?

— Satan, Doctor Faustus

~ Monday, May 14 ~

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don't think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you."

~ Sunday, May 13 ~

“ What is a journalist? He is first of all a person who is supposed to have ideas. He is also a person who every day takes it upon himself to inform the public about the events of the day before. In short, he is a historian of the moment, and truth must be his primary concern. Yet every historian knows that even with distance from events, comparison of documents, and testimony from different witnesses, truth in history is an elusive thing. The only thing he can do about this state of affairs is to offer an ethical corrective in the form of a concern with objectivity and prudence.

— Albert Camus

~ Saturday, May 12 ~

“ But of course you must remember, fans, the turning points in our history are not always so grand as they are cracked up to be in the murals on your post office wall.

— The Great American Novel