For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you’re lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
Phillip K. Dick “VALIS” (via autumnalwolf)
Which is why the Work is hard. By the time we learn language, we have subtly been entrained by culture.
(via coldalbion)
“We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things … The true secrets. The important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever, seven words to make them go without pain; how to say goodbye to a friend who is dying; how to be poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you.”
-Elric the Technomage, Babylon 5 ‘The Geometry of Shadows’
(via catvincent)
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 