If you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.

Samuel Johnson's turn.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 9:54, archived)

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Plato's turn
( GrandmaOfShoes, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 9:56, archived)

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know
because they have never lied to us.

Kant's turn?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 9:56, archived)

A man often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it.
/likes this one but doesn't know who it's by.
( RR I love you ... in a way, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:04, archived)

Batman.

( GrandmaOfShoes, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:06, archived)

Nah, that was "Rubber nipples on the costume... too much?"

( RR I love you ... in a way, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)

There's a similar Sufi story
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3933318.html
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:18, archived)

Brilliant.
I love that.
( RR I love you ... in a way, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:31, archived)

When you meet death in a story, never, never, ever think you can outwit, outsmart, trick, confuse, or otherwise triumph over him/her. You are always fucked. There's no point in galloping to Samarkand, or trying to hide under the bed, or swapping the life candles so Death blows out someone else's, or going 'Look! Over there!!' and then running away. Give it up. You are done for. Welcome it, and then you can avoid ending up as the idiot in someone's story about how some idiot thought they could cheat death.
( vladimir, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:41, archived)