your head, my head

“your head’s like mine; like all our heads.
big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was.
big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars.
whole universes fit in there!
but what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet?
little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over.
the world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune’s all we are.”

grant morrison, the invisibles #3

September 16, 2002 – 10:31 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Distractions | Comments (10)
  • A.

    That’s gorgeous.

  • JO

    All I think is jewelry box ballerina…*HUG.. the stress caused by this show is getting to you… *HUG again

  • Lavonda

    So very true. So very me.

  • Haley Jones

    Hey Thomas!! I just wanted to let you know…Sam Brown used one of my titles! It’s the one called “I can’t think of Anything” on file for 9-13-02.It’s kindof freaky actually. But what a creative title, huh? I’m so damn imaginative, it’s scary…

  • Darrell

    “…and all the silly, sightless people came and looked, and called it junk.”

  • http://www.livejournal/users/jolefay JO

    Where was I (stupid server) yes I was telling Darrell how awesome HE is..For pointing out the junk so I could once again say that clippet resembles this and that a Jewelry box ballerina is where you put your plastic jewelry when your 12..It’s also one of those silly things you have in your hope chest when your 29.

  • Darrell

    I love quoting the late Mr. Silverstein. But my real thought is this: You still have a hope chest?

  • JO

    OHHHH man Darrell it’s all I have left hoppppeeeeeee *cries

  • http://www.changingthestory.com Janice

    Darrell – we missed you – don’t be such a stranger ; )

  • A.

    “…and all the silly, sightless people came and looked, and called it junk.”
    Yes, but I would take it one step further and say that it’s not only about seeing beauty in “junk,” but also about transcendence, or our lack of it:

    Campbell: Eden is. “The Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it.” [Gnostic gospels of St. Thomas.]

    Moyers: Eden is–in this world of pain and suffering and death and violence?

    Campbell: That is the way it feels, but this is it, this is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated.
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

    Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

    Too much to post here, sorry, but I had to say it.