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Discussion: Eat knife with an ice cream. (single sentence thread)

EntrenchdMentalist

EntrenchdMentalist

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Sometimes a single sentence presented out of context can be at once profound yet bizarre, nonsensical yet deeply meaningful. Sometimes they can be so moving as to become a personal mantra or something like one and sometimes you might read it as a triple-entendre that no-one else would ever get, just because of your own unique experience.

I tend to write down a lot of these in my notebooks. Probably lots of us do it. Sometimes they come together in a poem, and other times they're best by themselves. Some of them are corny. Others may be ridiculous and just make you laugh. Others still you may come up with and then some time later be horrified to discover in a moment of vanity googling that your profound original thought has already been conceived (stolen!) by bloggists, bookists and billions of other internet dweebies cooler than yourself.

They may not even be yours. You might read rather than write them. Maybe in the midst of a page full of words, maybe on a wall in the street.

This thread is for some of those sentences. Whenever you come up with or come upon a sentence that you just marvel over in one of these ways, post it here. If it's not yours, let us know whose it is or where you saw it :)
 
I know exactly what you mean, and I think it's a fantastic idea for a thread!

I have two of these sentences in particular that are kind of my own mantras I guess....these have a lot of meaning to me and have helped to shape the way I see the world and choose to live.

Beauty is its own reward: this is the realisation I came to after years of depression and trying to find any kind of reason at all to want to be alive.

Everything is different: this one is from our very own up all night, and given the context in which it was originally given, it made me consciously realise that I don't have to let the experiences of my past limit me because I am not the person now that I was then.

This is an awesome idea, I am very interested to see what other people can contribute! :)
 
School ended.: It's from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It's only two words, but it is a complete sentence and encompasses SO MUCH MEANING in such a short space.

Steal yourself: This is one of my own (I swear.) but that has also been thought up independently by others worldwide. It means so many things to me. To steel yourself is to get ready - I like to be always in a constant state of readiness for anything. Plus there's the idea that we are not our own person in society until we forcefully take ourselves back from just being a conglomeration of the effects of our experiences on our genetically programmed brains. It's a call to power that I put forward to every single person who reads it and to myself: Wake the fuck up, stop bouncing off the world and get some propulsion. The Robin Hood element: take yourself out of the money machine and give yourself to those who need you. Etc. etc. etc.
 
Personify yourself.

Change is constant.

All is No-Thing.

Mind in Motion.

I love this Stream.
 
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."

This quote is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but the same idea was also expressed by Blaise Pascal in 1656.

I'll be back with more! :D
 
"Nothings gonna change my world"- John Lennon, Across the Universe. Besides the fatc that I have deep deep respect for John Lennon, who was a true atrist, this sums up a lot of what I value. Its empowering, and almost aggressive in its adamant statement, but cushioned by such beuaiful music, is able to convey its true relevance, which is about a gentle determination, quiet and calm certainty and confdence. At time when my brain has been battered by the world and my own strangeness and trippy drugs, I can repeat this likea mantra which automatically cuts though my thoughtpattern. I apply this sentiment to other people with my conduct, and try not to change their wolrd for the worse- at the same time, I live my own way....
 
My favorite sentences:

"What the thunder said." (From T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.)

"Hell is a place of warmth." (From a friend, origin unknown.)

"To become confident, you must practice confidence." (An extrapolation from Aristotelian virtue ethics. I say it to myself every time I need to do something personally difficult.)

"The city has a thousand tales..." (Mine?)
 
Searing rain. Your thread just inspired it; it’s a “personal experience” sextuple-or-some-odd loose entendre. It has a similar tactile contrast as is found in your “Eat knife with ice scream” but lacks its functional one. The concentric rings rain makes in puddles could be thought of as “sea rings”; in this context “searing rain” takes on a sense of the microcosmic, with the puddle as the sea, and with the water ring symbolizing their connection (their wedding ring) through the water cycle, another ring; vaporization results from searing the rain, the state of vaporization straddles the two chief material states that comprise the water cycle; plus, puddles are reflective…(You see, ring-rain!). When this idea is combined with the connotation of pain in “searing” it could communicate eternal, inescapable suffering.

I’ve always been fascinated by this kind of compression of sentential/phrasal meaning through word associations, and think of it as one of the highest poetic arts (I made a thread but it immediately sunk). I’d recommend Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid for this kind of thing in logic/math/art/consciousness if you haven’t read it.

As an aside, psood0nym is a name (rather than a sentence) that itself means a name chosen to be anonymous, it’s not capitalized, the middle “initial” is actually a number--moreover a cipher—masquerading as a letter, and as a whole the name only possesses a phonetic equivalence to “pseudonym” (it’s a many-masked name posing with every inch of it’s being as a non-entity).
 
It would delight me
to devour more of
your imaginative words,
dr. imagination.
 
"Reality is not simply there; it must be searched for and won." - Paul Celan
 
mm nice i love this kinda thing

yesterday's gone - title of a tune by beth orton
not just another brick in the wall - found written on a brick in a wall
 
Control is the world's greatest illusion, it's impossible to ever truly achieve.

This is from a comic book I read years ago and is a sentiment that has stuck with me very strongly....basically what it says to me is that you can't ever really exercise full control over the people and circumstances around you, so don't stress about not being able to.
 
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