Aug 11
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IN THE BEGINNING
Jul 10
“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.” –Lucius Apuleius
Welcome to our second flight of Priceless Ads. As in the first flight, every Priceless ad in this series delivers a familiar massage. In your priceless comment(s) about the massage that you receive, again and again, please don’t hold back your true feelings.
“Contempt is a terrible thing to waste.” –Max Im*
*Max Im is the pun name of a pen name with a case of aphorism, which causes one to shoot its mouth off. The rest of the Max Im quotes in this post go without citation, lest familiarity with a pun name breed groans beneath contempt.
Jun 14
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” — Franz Kafka
This medium inserts ads selling exactly what AI thinks you need that money can buy. Those ads redeem themselves by picking up the tab for our media massage.
“The Medium is the Massage” —Marshall McLuhan
Our Priceless Ads clear the air of buyer’s remorse. They are destined to become collector’s items. Satisfaction guaranteed, or dissatisfaction cheerfully refunded.
May 22
“The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan
Effing words, from a mad Yank in a Brit madhouse, pervade the premier edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.*
Small wonder that effing words skew the lens through which we view, upside-down and inside-out, the ineffable being in us.
Cosmic Selfies, by contrast, render a madman’s inner being effable, as few effing words can.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. — Rumi
May 6
“I was lost in a wave’s embrace, now I am found amazing Grace.” — Translated from a note in a bottle
The quotes in this post are from a note in a bottle on a wave, translated from pictological Zenish by the editor. –Ed.
Apr 18
Happy International Haiku Day
Melting snow showers
Crocus pops near tulip spears
A spring fever breaks
Half of this haiku’s meaning is clear in the writer’s mind. The other half may mean something else. On International Haiku Day, that could make the haiku mean anything and everything the world needs now.
“Meaning lies as much in the mind of he reader as in the haiku.” – Douglas R. Hofstadter
Apr 12
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” ― Sigmund Freud
Would it be narcissistic to imagine a love story of creation that’s all about Me?
If so, would I be just another personal pronoun?
It it possible that I my Self could care less about Me than Yours truly?
Curiosity regarding I my Self and Me weaves through this creator’s dreams.
In a multi-verse love story created, as it were, of whole cloth, one might dream up infinite answers, perchance to love and deem one good.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit.
— Marianne Williamson
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