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“The Ghost Writer”. Hearts Beating in Unison.

 
 
 
“The Ghost Writer”
 
in my own words…”…taken from my Heart”
 
I don’t think I am a film buff. I have seen a lot of films, but I hardly qualify for a person who knows all that much about films, film industry, this and that director.  The knowledge must be very expansive and I don’t have it.
 
I did [...]

Assume Formlessness

 
 
From Robert Greene “The 48 Laws of Power”.
 
Law 48 – Assume Formlessness
 
Page 419
Judgment
 
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack.  Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move.  Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed.  [...]

Imagination.

 
 
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.” (Vladimir Nabokov)
 
 
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
 
 
“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
 
 
“I [...]

Victor Pelevin. The Beauty and Deception.

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
I cannot say that she was especially good-looking.  On those occasions when I saw her after a long separation, I was amazed at how this skinny little creature with such fierce eyes could have become everything for me – love, life, death, the salvation of my soul.  But she [...]

Victor Pelevin. How can non-existence…

 
“How can non-existence get sick of itself?
Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don’t even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our [...]