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"My" or "The", It All Works

...and now I suspect I am a machine created to bring anxiety into the world.

Pictures for Sad Children

But Voicemail Still Works

This inbox is empty.

Suggestion for an epitaph from an Indian colleague of David Allen's
(via Twitter)

Legion

...a man born for something quite different, a misfit, one of those people who learn to be sly because they don't care much for their lives.

Cesare Pavese
The Beach

Poetry in Emotion

I love mankind -- it's people I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

Aromatherapy

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Yet With Incentive To Preserve

The right notebook must be guilt-free to destroy.

Shawn Blanc

Whither Life In General

While everything did seem to paint
The scene more fit for his complaint

Andrew Marvell
Damon the Mower, ll 3-4 (1681)

Each Man's Answer Is Unique

How can I take an interest in my work when I don't like it?

Francis Bacon, painter (1909–92)

Could Have Been Any Random Tuesday

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Bernard de Fontenelle (last words)

True or False

If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.

Katsushika Hokusai (last words)