Jesse says...

After listening to The Legion of Doom‘s mash-up Icarus Underwater about 20+ times today, I can only be forced to conclude that I have an unnatural and unhealthy obsession with mythological figures who follow their pride to their downfall. Lucifer, I’m talking to you.

Speaking of Icarus, I learned that I encounter a lot of “that can’t possibly be a coincidence”-kind of events in my world. For example, today Michael emailed me a link to some free fonts for use in Etoile. I found one I really liked, called Lacuna (which, appropriately enough, is also a word I find stuck in my head a lot). And what is shown as a display of the Lacuna letterforms? This.

on so many levels.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.