Elogios: a la mundana Ironia

"
Heard joke once:
Man goes to a doctor. Says he's depressed.
Says life seems harsh and cruel.
Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

Doctor says - "treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see Him. That should pick you up".

Man burst into tears. Says - "But Doctor...

...I'm Pagliacci."

Good joke.
Everybody laugh.
Roll on snare drum.
Curtains.
"

Rorschach, en Watchmen

Elogios: a la bella locura

"...they danced down the streets like dingledodies,
and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me,
because the only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn,
burn,
burn

like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'
"
Tomado de "On the Road", de Jack Kerouac

Cronicas del Toripollo

(*: Nombres cambiados para evitar represalias Divinas)

Cronicas 15:27,
- Y el Señor le dijo a *Dabit:
- Hijo, exijo de ti un sacrificio humano; una ofrenda de sangre...

Cabizbajo y taciturno, silenciosamente Dabit realizó el sacrificio... segundos despues la voz atronadora del Señor le reprendio frente al altar:

- Como has podido atreverte a matar a tu hermano?... mal hombre...
"Señor!! pero si eso me has dicho q hiciera!! como puedes tu ser el Señor al obligarme a hacer esto entonces!!"

-Porque como soy el Señor, sabia que te lo creerias.

[(CC) Ente de luz realizando un pase de twist sobre las aguas, concentrado en su alegria]

Manifesto No.4: Prophet

"...I feel like unearned rewards are false and meaningless, yet so many people spend their lives chasing easy/unearned rewards..." -

"I think that a lot of people feel like the point of life is to be happy, or comfortable, or something like that, whereas I am highly suspicious of those things. All other things being equal I like being happy, but the problem is, all other things are not equal — probably happiness comes at a cost, possibly a great cost...." -

"From a very early age I was determined to find out the truth about life, and not to accept living for lesser things. Even when very young, as a relatively smart kid, you can look around and see that a bunch of what all these adults are doing is pretty stupid — and because you’re so detached from it, you’re not yet enmeshed in that adult world, the lameness is even more obvious. That made a huge impression on me.

The problem is that if you refuse to accept easy answers, if you keep digging and insisting on understanding the truth, it becomes very difficult to exist. Because people only manage to get by in their lives, from day to day, by being at least a little bit stupid, by not thinking about this or that; because if they really cared about the answers to certain things, everything would fall apart. At some time in my early twenties I made a deal with myself, that I would let this relentless truth-seeking part of me go inside for a while, so that I would be able to exist and not go crazy; and maybe it could come out sometime in the future, when I would know better how to pursue the truth, and when, maybe, I would be emotionally strong enough to keep going."

Extracto de una entrevista a Jonathan Blow, acerca del makin' of de Braid