Sigrinn – in my line of sight

“Nature never deceives us; we deceive ourselves.”

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (find out more about him here), from Emile (find the entire text here).

“You mend clothes like dogs write poetry.”

~ from The Lies of Locke Lamora, page 117, written by Scott Lynch.

I’ve started a writers’ group this summer, just to give myself a kick in the butt.
Combined with Write or die, it might work.

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk any more, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather round a fire and tell stories.”

~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

The writer Alain de Button is stuck at Heathrow and thus philosophise about a future without airplanes:

In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea.

Read the entire article here.