http://paulski.com/coolblog Musings & Memories Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:52:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The conclusion of your syllogism", I said lightly, "is fallacious, being based upon licensed premises". Flann O'Brien (At Swim Two Birds) http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=30 A mother and her son were having supper together. When it was time for the pudding (some prunes and cream); the boy refused to eat the prunes. The mother told the boy that he must eat his pudding but he refused. She then tried to coerce him without success. Now she ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=28 Suddenly, walking along the open road I felt afraid. I saw the stars and the world below my feet Became a planet, and I was no longer In Wiltshire. I was standing Upon the surface, the edge of the planet That runs around the sun. I was in danger. For all the comfort of the elms, ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=27 There are some men who should have mountains to bear their names through time Grave markers are not high enough or green and sons go far away to lose the fist their father's hand will always seem I had a friend he lived and died in mighty silence and with dignity left no book son or lover to mourn. Nor ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=26 "I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody that will inspire me with passion. You know its' quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness... There is even a moment right at the start, where you have to ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=24 When strife is a thing of two each knows the other in struggle and the conflict is a communion; a twoness. But when strife is a thing of one a single ego striving for its own ends and beating down resistances then strife is evil, because it is not strife. http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=23 "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation". George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=22 A lizard ran out on a rock and looked up, listening no doubt to the sounding of the spheres. And what a dandy fellow! the right toss of a chin for you and a swirl of a tail! If men were as much men as lizards are lizards they'd be worth looking at. http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=21 Some good few years ago, a couple, discerning a need, set up a fish shop in Cavan, the county town of County Cavan in Ireland. Well it was a resounding success. People hadn't realised that if you could get nice fresh fish of all sorts of varieties in this area, some ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=20 A laird was out walking over his boundless highland estate when he encountered a tramp on his travels. He was most annoyed by this and said to the tramp "What do you think you are doing here? Get off my land immediately". The tramp sighed, gathered his few bits and pieces ... http://paulski.com/coolblog/?p=19