The author writes in order to address himself to the freedom
of readers, and he requires it in order to make his work exist...
he also requires that they return this confidence which he has
given them,
that they recognize his creative freedom."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Literature and Existentialism)
My Random Musings and Commentaries:
There are mythical angels in life, they say, that cause
miracles and change lives, but i find that angels change
NOT events, but people... they inspire changes in people...
They mark a turning point in a life.
At Point A, it doesn't matter whether we can forsee the
factual, destined Point B, we still must experience
the actual distance between Point A to Point B, in order
to understand the person we have become at Point B. Within
the experience of a moment, we have embraced free will.
The recreation of time is an art form. Events are the
malleable clay. We are the sculptors of our own history.
There are no chapters to a book in life. We continue to
categorize events in different arrangements, finding our
own poetry in these creations.
I recently watched a Japanese movie "AfterLife" in which
the story focused on the central question: If you were to
select only one moment in your life to experience for all
eternity, what moment would you pick, knowing that you would
forget all else but that of which belongs to that moment?
Thoughts on Cyberspace:
"Cyberspace is a consensual hallucination
that these people have created. It's like, with this equipment,
you can agree to share the same hallucinations. In effect,
they're creating a world. It's not really space. It's notional
space... a graphic representation of data abstracted from
the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable
complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the
mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights
receding"
- William Gibson (coined term "Cyberspace" in Neuromancer)
"Cyberspace is where you are when you're
talking on the telephone" - John Barlow
Albert Einstein's Quotes:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created
by the individual who can labour in freedom."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
"I want to know God's thoughts."
"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts."
Mother Teresa
"We can do no great things- only small things with great
love."