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meezer · 2 months

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Yo where is that quote in your description from?? I love it and the new theme sm

thank you very much!!! ^_^

the quote is from The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion, though I originally encountered it in The Talos Principle (my favorite video game of all time)

I really like it too!! :o)

#cup-noodle #thank you for the interest!!

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corkcitylibraries · 5 years

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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

By Paul Cussen

October 1919

While Lloyd George’s government realise that Home Rule is not enough to satisfy the Irish, the Irish Committee of the British Government is recreated under heavy Unionist influence, notably through Sir Walter Long.

John McArdle, F Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers loses the use of an eye during an exchange with British forces.

James Joyce leaves Zurich for Trieste. He writes to Harriet Weaver to say that he has found the manuscript of A Portrait… in the drawer of his desk, exactly where he had left it four years before. Not trusting the post-war postal system he divides the manuscript into four parts, posting each one separately, and promising that if any part did not arrive, he will write it out again for her.

(In July 1951 Harriet Weaver presented the manuscript to Frederick Boland as a donation for the National Library of Ireland. She was so impressed by Boland’s enthusiasm that she donated a portrait of the great man by Wyndham Lewis to the National Gallery of Ireland)

Winston Churchill condemns the IRA as ‘a gang of squalid murderers’ who have eluded capture.

D’Annunzio, the ‘John the Baptist of Fascism’, receives a cargo ship laden with military equipment. The Persia is captured by Giuseppe Giuletti and some volunteers who redirect it from its original destination of Vladivostock, where it is to supply the White Armies, to Fiume.

1-2 October

Dozens of doughboys shot at African-Americans and when police arrive they shoot at them during the Baltimore riot. Police reinforcements cause the soldiers to withdraw. In total six soldiers are arrested.

2 October

Seán 'ac Dhonncha is born in Carna, Connemara (d. 1996)

US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke that leaves him partially paralysed.

3 October

John Boyd (Boyd Bradfield Upchurch) is born in Atlanta (d. 2013)

James M. Buchanan is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (d. 2013)

5 October

Private William Grenville dies of appendicitis in Cork.

Donald Pleasence is born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire (d. 1995)

5-6 October

61.6% of voters vote for prohibition (of spirits) in a referendum in Norway.

6-7 October

American marines and Haitian gendarmes repel an attack by Caco rebels under Charlemagne Masséna Péralte in the Battle of Port-au-Prince.

7 October

Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM) is founded and will become the first airline in the world to celebrate its centenary. The modified De Havilland DH-9B bomber pictured above was part of their London Amsterdam service with British Aerial Transport.

9 October

Constable Joseph Reynolds of the Dublin Metropolitan Police overpowers William Little who had just shot two “Asylum attendants and a private enquiry agent”.

10 October

Private W.J. Edwards dies of aenemia in Central Hospital, Cork aged 18.

11 October

Art Blakey is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)

11 Oct–18 Nov

Soviet forces halt the White forces advance on Moscow in the Orel-Kromy operation.

14 October

Aleksandar Stamboliyski is appointed Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

17 October

HMS Dragon is hit by two shells from a shore battery while taking part in an operation against German forces attacking Riga. Nine of the crew die and five are wounded.

RCA is created as a subsidiary to General Electric.

18 October

De Valera is made an honorary chief of the Chippewa in Wisconsin.

Pierre Trudeau is born in Montreal (d. 2000)

19 October

Detective Michael Downing of G Division (Dublin Metropolitan Police) is assassinated.

Anna Howard Shaw becomes the first female recipient of the US Distinguished Service Medal.

20 October

Ontario voters decide not to repeal prohibition in a referendum.

The man engine which transports miners underground at the Levant Mine in Cornwall fails. The rod which controls the movement breaks and men on the device plummet the 1,596-foot shaft. At least five of the 31 who die had served in the War.

22 October

Doris Lessing is born in Kermanshah, Iran (d. 2013)

W. N. P. Barbellion (pen-name of Bruce Frederick Cummings), English naturalist and diarist, dies of multiple sclerosis (born 1889)

25 October

Jimmy Rudd is born in Dublin (d. 1985)

Six Republican prisoners (including Piaras Beaslaí) escape from Strangeways Prison.

Ireland and England draw 1-1 in front of a crowd of 30,000 in Windsor Park, Belfast.

26 October

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 premieres in Queen’s Hall, London.

President Wilson’s veto of the Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden.

27 October

James Joseph Magennis is born in Belfast (d. 1986)

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count George Plunkett, reports ‘a steady progress’ in the development of Ireland’s foreign relations ‘in spite of all impediments’.

Mike Pepitone becomes the last victim of the Axeman of New Orleans.

28 October

Arthur Ransome leaves Russia with his future wife Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, who had been Trotsky's secretary.

30 October

Ella Wheeler Wilcox dies of cancer in Short Beach, Connecticut (b. 1850)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own

‘Since I went to Ireland the only party delivering inflammatory speeches inciting to the murder of the servants of the Crown has been the Sinn Fein party, and so long as these speeches are likely to be delivered by these men I will prohibit them.’ -Sir James Macpherson in the House of Commons

31 October

Two units of the IRA attack the RIC barracks in Ballivor, Co. Meath killing 35 year old RIC Constable William Agar and seizing a revolver, five rifles and a large amount of ammunition.

Elsewhere in Co. Meath, Sergeant Matthews and Constables Griffiths and O’Shea at Lismullin RIC barracks repel an attack by about 26 Volunteers.

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stephanosaurus-rx · 6 years

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He pensado que, cuando muera, al menos mis átomos vivirán para siempre en una estrella o quizás en la cola de un salmón.

Me basta con pertenecer al universo; un universo tan inmenso. Ni siquiera la Muerte puede privarme de ese honor. Porque nada puede cambiar el hecho de que he vivido; he sido yo, aunque sea durante tan poco tiempo. Y cuando esté muerto, la materia que compone mi cuerpo será indestructible —y eterna, así que le pase lo que le pase a mi Alma, seguiré siendo polvo, y cada uno de mis átomos seguirá su camino—. Seguiré, aun así, metiendo mis narices en todo.

Cuando muera, podréis hervirme, quemarme, ahogarme, esparcirme, pero no podréis destruirme.

¿La muerte? La muerte sólo puede matarme.

W. N. P. Barbellion - El diario de un hombre decepcionado.

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universalflowuniversity · 5 years

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davidabrams · 5 years

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Today's #1000BooksToReadBeforeYouDie is "Journal of a Disappointed Man" by W. N. P. Barbellion. (As an aside, the title also reflects my feelings as a #furloughed federal employee this morning...but that's a whole other story). This is an example of what I love most about @jamesmustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: the joy of discovery. Prior to opening @1000bookstoreadbeforeyoudie, I'd never heard of the Edwardian-era writer or his 1919 memoir about his illness (which turned out to be multiple sclerosis). If Barbellion's writing is even half as poignant as Mustich's summary, then I will indeed be heartbroken (and not, I suspect, disappointed). https://www.instagram.com/p/BrskDZFnJ2X/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zhehcid3agf0

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dont-quote-me-on-this · 9 years

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I have revelled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to live dangerously, indifferent to my fate, I have discovered I am a fly, that we are all flies, that nothing matters. It's a great load off my life, for I don't mind being such a micro-organism - to me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe - such a great universe, so grand a scheme of things. Not even Death can rob me of that honour. For nothing can alter the fact that I have lived; I have been I, if for ever so short a time. And when I am dead, the matter which composes my body is indestructible - and eternal, so that come what may to my "Soul," my dust will always be going on, each separate atom of me playing it's separate part - I shall still have some sort of finger in the pie. When I am dead, you can boil me, burn me, drown me, scatter me - but you cannot destroy me: my little atoms would merely deride such heavy vengeance. Death can do no more than kill you.

W. N. P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man

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aseaofquotes · 11 years

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