Ooh now that's a toughie Lady True.....both hail from my neck of the Uk woods...but I actually grew up playing in the Ashdown Forest and throwing sticks off Pooh Bridge, so it has to be POOH!
haha it was actually a quote from an Eddie Izzard routine, so a British term in a sense!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFyuhTwi_OE
Awww the far off days of old when Eddie Izzard was a first-rate comedian, not a second-rate actor!
Vonnegut because there is a lot of wit and wisdom in those slim little volumes. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater is the smallest masterpiece I've ever encountered. He always gets to the heart of the matter. Also, one time in Texas, I was in a car waiting for my ex-girlfriend to get gas and a homeless man came up to me to ask for change. He then asked me what I was reading and when I showed him Breakfast of Champions he looked at the little picture of Vonnegut and said, "Is he some kind of mad scientist?" "Kind of, yes!" was my reply.
oh moments... though memories of moments sounds good!
There's a good C.S. Lewis quote about how living in the moment brings you the closest to God. I'm not a terribly religious man, I'm a humanist with quaker affinities, but there is real truth to the idea that the past is like a frozen river, the future is like the countless spreading of rivulets, while being in the present is like standing deep in the infinite river itself, as the waters rush about your feet.
That Eddie Izzard guy is pretty cool, first time I've seen him. (I'll have the chicken then, lol)
Mmm, I used to read C.S. Lewis a lot, I enjoyed his writing so much. Not the Narnia series, though I read those too, but his non-fiction.
And recently I read that scientists think the past still exists, time is like a moving river (I think that is Einstein),and the possibility for travelling within time is a real possibilty, though not the technology to do so yet. And even that what happened in the past is dependent on who experienced it and how it was experienced. In other words, historical fact may not be so at all. Or I think that is what I read, Hawkings is hard to understand. Exciting and scary.
Shells, if I must choose.
Science or Mystery?
-- Edited by Lady Trueheart on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 11:09:42 PM
Oh that's so tricky....I really can't choose Lady T..... i think Gandalf today.... but tomorrow Dumbledore please! *wizardly white bearded visions flood in*
Dragons... but like, real beastial monstrous dragons, like in the picture below or else dragons that spout existentialist philosophy like in John Gardner's Grendel!