Thursday, July 5, 2012

Shit-scared of the great unknown


I was just like everybody else: shit-scared of the great unknown. 
Desperate to take a little piece of home with me.

The Beach (2000), Danny Boyle

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

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When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Garland, The Beach

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