great lines from lyrics
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time. And the Wichita lineman, is still on the line. – from Wichita Lineman, by Glen Campbell
Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine – from Gloria, by Patti Smith
They smelt of pubs, And Wormwood Scrubs, And too many right wing meetings – Down in the tube station at midnight, by the Jam
Then, as I walked down Second Avenue towards St. Mark’s Place, where all those people sell used books and other junk on the street, I saw my penis lying on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven – Detachable penis, by King Missile
See, my old man’s got a problem - lives with a bottle, that’s the way it is. He says his body’s too old for working, his body’s too young to look like his – Fast Car, by Tracy Chapman
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on Cadillac. (Don Henley, Boys of Summer)
Don’t the sun look angry through the trees, don’t the trees look like crucified thieves. – Desperados under the eaves, by Warren Zevon
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” —- Gordon Lightfoot (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald)
“I hate people when they’re not polite” – ‘Psycho Killer’ - Talking Heads
Hairstyles and attitudes—how do they relate? How well do we use the freedom to choose the illusions we create? -— Timbuk3
Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, ‘Cause you don’t want that late text, that “I think I’m late” text
Paper chasin’ tell that paper “Look, I’m right behind ya” Bitch real Gs move in silence like lasagna. – 6 Foot 7 foot, by Lil Wayne
Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one. – All this time, by Sting
Fussin’ and flappin’ in priestly black like a murder of crows. – All this ti me, by Sting
Sting, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello
“Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met/it’s a big enough umbrella, but it’s always me that ends up getting wet” – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, The Police
“Love is not a victory march” – Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is to love and be loved in return” - Nat King Cole, Nature Boy
“Oh I used to be disgusted, but now, I’m just amused.” – Elvis Costello, Red Shoes
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car, from the profit he’s made on your dreams. – The Low Spark of high heeled boys, by Traffic
She’s filling her nails while they’re dragging the lake. – Watching the Detectives, by Elvis costello
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Rush - Freewill
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything.” Badlands. Springsteen
I was seriously thinking ‘bout hiding the receiver when – the switch broke, ‘cause it’s old. – Radio, radio, by Elvis Costello
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival! And the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say man, what are you doing here. – Piano Man, by Billy Joe
It doesn’t mean that much to me, to mean that much to you. – Old Man by Neil Young
Is the power of love worth the pain of loss? – James 5.0
You know you got to go through hell, before you get to heaven.
You look into her eyes, and it’s more than your heart will allow.
I can’t see the point, but I see the attraction.
She was workin’ in a topless place and I stopped in for a beer. – Tangled up in Blue, Bob Dylan
Don’t you think every kitten figures out how to get down, Whether or not you ever show up… – Not a pretty girl by Ani DiFranco
You said you loved me, or were you just being kind? Or am I losing my mind? – Follies
They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential.
“And I sound like an infant, feeling like the very last drops of an inkpen.
Something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
“I had a taste of the real world (Don’t waste a drop of it) when I went down on you girl (Don’t stop it)” —- Marty Balin, “Miracles“ (album version)
“Don’t tell me that they’re antisocial/somehow not antisocial enough” – Poets by the Tragically Hip
We’ve been waiting all our lives, For things we’ve always had but have no eyes to see.
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https://amclain.com/blog/feminism-and-science-fiction-a-syllabus
no grid and no overlap. with territory, with possible deadzones, with eyes, with captures and so on.
演员都是传奇人物，都是聪明绝顶的人。他们高居于日常生活之上，悠然注视着舞台下的大众；他们能够记住铿锵的台词，仿佛把整个世界都掌握在手中。孩子不满足于贫瘠单调的现实生活，因而对舞台充满热切执着的渴望。孩子当然不明白“舞台小人生，人生大舞台”这幺深奥的哲理，这个哲理必须等到孩子饱经生命的风霜之后才能领悟到。很多年之后，当我读莎士比亚的剧本时，在《第十二夜》中发现了这段话，顿时像被闪电击所中一样震撼了：“这个人去做俳优是够聪明的了。干这个营生，真是很需要一点聪明，他必得观察他们所取笑的人们的心情、那人的人品，与时间得当否。并且还要似未受过训练的苍鹰，对于面前的每一个飞禽都要追逐。这一种工作与智慧者的精心艺术一样充满了辛苦。因为他用聪明所表现的愚蠢是恰当的，但是聪明人若跃在愚蠢里，却要把聪明污损了。”莎士比亚既是作家，又是演员；既是旁观者，又是介入者。在舞台上，他发现了幕前、幕后的分野；在生活中，他更发现了那道一般人看不见的“幕布”――那些看起来最聪明的人，其实就是自由自在地出入于这道幕布的人。如何才能自由自在地出入于幕布内外呢？那幺！，你必须给自己戴上一个面具。所有的戏剧说到底都是戴着面具的舞蹈。
…就是根深蒂固的“瞒与骗”（鲁迅语）的文化和政治特性。中国人固然很聪明，但这种聪明仅仅是把“屡战屡败”改写为“屡败屡战”的聪明；中国人固然很勤劳，但这种勤劳仅仅是苦练表演招式、让面具内化为面部肌肉的勤劳。通过这个小故事，汪康年极其沉痛地揭示出了这种可怕的现实：我们生活在一个互相欺骗和捉弄的优孟王国，我们从来没有真实、诚恳、认真地生活过。我们的历史打上了浓重的“ 优孟史”的烙印，我们的文化染上了“优孟文化”的致命毒素。在这个与现实生活几乎“同构”的舞台上，无论皇帝还是弄臣，无论官僚还是黎民，都兼有“骗人” 和“被骗”的两重身份。
晚清名伶德君如是穆彰阿之孙，他却不顾显贵的出身，“下海”而为艺人。家人强迫他承袭爵位，他断然拒绝。叔父萨廉骂他自甘下贱，玷辱门风，将他逐出宗族，注销族名。即便如此，德君如也绝不回头。有朋友劝他归家继承爵位，他却说：“我在舞台上一身而兼帝王将相，威重一时，为何要回家？”友人说：“这戏中的帝王将相可是假的。”他反驳说：“天下事还有什幺是真的？”这是一种彻头彻尾的大绝望。在一个举世皆骗子的世界上，德君如认为：既然我无法揭穿所有的谎言，那幺我乾脆就去做那个明目张胆地宣称自己是骗子的演员。这种绝望正如鲁迅所说的，是铁屋子中的人醒来之后发现无法打破铁屋子的绝望。
book: Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (1971). Nozick proposes his minimal state as the only justifiable form of government.