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Spit Happens

Michael Arnzen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:30:13 +0000

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”
– George Carlin (died June 2008)

Rest in Green Peace

Michael Arnzen — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:48:31 +0000

“You are more useful to Nature dead than alive.”
– U.G. Krishnamurti (died 2007)

We’ll Manage

Michael Arnzen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:01:12 +0000

“If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.”
–Emile M. Cioran (died 1995)

Look Out Cannibals!

Michael Arnzen — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:57:59 +0000

“When the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, ‘If you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you.’…So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”

– Benjamin Franklin (died 1790)

The Petting Zoophobia

Michael Arnzen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:17:05 +0000

“In an aversion to animals the predominant feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact. The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him something lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized. All disgust is originally disgust at touching.”
– Walter Benjamin (died 1940)

You Still Have to Take the Final

Michael Arnzen — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:14:59 +0000

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
– Maurice Maeterlinck (died 1949)

Perspective

Michael Arnzen — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:49:01 +0000

“After being struck on the head by an axe, it is a positive pleasure to be beaten about the body with a wooden club.”
– Anonymous (Chinese Proverb)

The Nurse Wears Black

Michael Arnzen — Wed, 24 May 2006 18:07:31 +0000

“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
– Tennessee Williams (died 1983)

The Gift of Life

Michael Arnzen — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:29:15 +0000

“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
– R.D. Laing (died 1989)

ESPECIALLY IF IT’S YOUR REFLECTION

Michael Arnzen — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:06:06 +0000

“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson (died 1924)

The True Value of Interior Decor

Michael Arnzen — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:17:29 +0000

“The consumer’s side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec (died 1966)

Time for a Change

Michael Arnzen — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:43:21 +0000

“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
– Charles Baudelaire (died 1866)

Got Sanity?

Michael Arnzen — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:11:25 +0000

“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?”
– William Saroyan (died 1981)

He’s Scratching at Your Window

Michael Arnzen — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:35:33 +0000

“We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.”
– James Russell Lowell (died 1891)

Gulp

Michael Arnzen — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:24:56 +0000

“The fish dies because he opens his mouth.”
– Anonymous Spanish Proverb