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Hybrid Moments – Helvetia [Misfits]

Asked how it felt to be so far ahead of his time that he was subject to attacks upon his sanity, Dr. Tesla smiled and said that he has long since ceased to regard it as important.

“I live a life of seclusion. The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows after I am dead, although it has been given to me to live to see those things which were once scouted accepted as scientific dogmas.

The thing that recompenses me is that my name shall be known to generations yet unborn for the Tesla Coil, Tesla Motor, and perhaps my name will be connected to the absolutely new source of power I am about to present to the world. It is this thought in which I find happiness and health. A pioneer does not apply his energies in the way the world is going. Rather he goes against the current. He lets them call him a lunatic. He lets them trample him—if I should every tell you the inside story of how I had been trampled—but never mind, it was all good for me. I have come through it. I am able to work harder than I worked a year ago. I work now with greater energy and get results more easily than ever before in my life.

…After all, they have called me a lunatic before. What is one last time?“

–Nikola Tesla

“Tesla Predicts New Source of Power In Year.” New York Herald Tribune. July 9, 1933.

theclassicsreader

“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”

— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

hermione-jgranger

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingertips from touching the light bulbs.”

— - J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters

girlwithlandscape

“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion. Never. I’m a little over-excited now. Since it is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? But let me tell you first what you won’t be asked. You won’t be asked if you were working on a wonderful, moving piece of writing when you died. You won’t be asked if it was long or short, sad or funny, published or unpublished. You won’t be asked if you were in good or bad form while you were working on it. You won’t even be asked if it was the one piece of writing you would have been working on if you had know your time would be up when it was finished—I think only poor Soren K. will get asked that. I’m so sure you’ll get asked only two questions. Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? If only you knew how easy it would be for you to say yes to to both questions.”

— J.D. Salinger, “Seymour: An Introduction” (from Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters)

I just had the strongest craving for these. Like, I don't think I've had one since around 30 years ago. The fuck are these pills doing to my head. I was reading about how there is a "depressive amnesia" and when you come out of depression you regain memories that seemingly were lost. I was also reading about how we think of mental illnesses as chemical imbalances, but most modern science is leaning towards things like shapes of parts of the brain and how the chemicals are a side effect of that, so while they know medications help or brains respond positively and it helps repair chemical imbalances, it doesn't actually address the cause. There ya go, void. Nice talk.

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samplerman

II°19#15

quotemadness

“If f you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.”

— Raymond Chandler (via quotemadness)

nonesuchrecords

More of Billy Bragg & Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue old-style gatefold sleeves on the line at Stoughton Printing Co. Looking good as ever, and available—with vinyl inside, of course—in the Nonesuch Store.