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In the wake of hackers exploiting security vulnerabilities in the PlayStation 3, opening the system to custom firmware, hacks and piracy, Sony appears to be issuing a response with new security updates.
The official PlayStation.blog warns that a new system update for the PS3 (version 3.56) will be released soon. Eric Lempel, VP or Network Operations for Sony Computer Entertainment America, is brief in describing what it does, writing "This is a minor update that adds a security patch."
The previous version of the PS3's firmware (version 3.55) updated with precisely the same description.
Perhaps more interesting than PS3 software updates is an unconfirmed report that Sony has another solution in the works to combat PlayStation 3 piracy and exploits: serial keys. According to a report on Techeye, citing Dutch PlayStation outlet PS3-Scene, who in turn cites an unnamed source, Sony may be playing to ship unique serial keys with each game it ships going forward.
That move, if true, would be an unusual solution. Serial keys certainly haven't saved the PC platform from piracy and customers may balk at another obstacle keeping them from playing their legitimately purchased games.
We've inquired with the folks at PlayStation to see if there's any truth to reports that serial keys will come to the PS3 and will update if they respond.


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The things done for and with their own children by Palestinian Arab society have long been the subject of extremely critical comment, and with justification. It's almost impossible to imagine a peace between two peoples based (as inevitably it would have to be) on some degree of painful compromise, when the Arab side consistently and continually educates its children for hatred, demonization and death. Here's a tiny example.
Palestinian Authority TV's programs are beamed into most of the homes in the territories controlled by Fatah, the terrorism-friendly political party headed in the past by Arafat and today by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. A week ago, on 24th January, it covered a Fatah celebration in Lebanon: the glorious 47th anniversary of Fatah's founding. (Reminder: 47 years ago, when Fatah began its chapter of the war of terrorism against us, the total number of square miles "occupied" by the hated Zionist entity was precisely zero.) If, like us, you are unable to tune in or to comprehend the Arabic commentary, Palestinian Media Watch has just published a report - with transcript, video and pictures.
The image above shows a poster that features prominently in the televised celebration. The text reads:
"Our children are our honor and glory. They were created to be fertilizer for the land of Palestine, and for our pure land to be saturated with their blood."What kind of future do youngsters raised to see themselves as fertilizer build for themselves? And who is at fault - because someone surely is.
The beauty and heroism of being killed for the sake of a Palestinian state-that-never-existed is a recurring theme in Palestinian Arab culture. Grasping this, you can go some way towards understanding how an entire society has been recruited to fight a war based on racist hatred of the other. It underlies the way its 'soldiers' - thousands of whom are school children and pre-teens - publicly express happiness at the prospect of dying if only (and this is the key) their death will bring pain, harm and destruction to the despised enemy.
PA TV covered another 47th anniversary event, this one in Ramallah, the PA's capital, on January 5, 2012 [see the Palestinian Media Watch report here]. The festive occasion included the participation of distinguished political leaders whom the mainstream media consistently but unjustifiably calls moderate. The broadcast shows children singing these appalling words supplied to them by their leaders and teachers:
"You have brought up and educated generation after generation. You waited patiently and discovered your heroic children. Oh, my pure land, I shall saturate you with my blood. I shall live and die upon your green ground... I shall redeem you with my life, oh my land. Your embrace warms us. Your ground satiates us, your goodness satisfies us. I shall redeem you with my life."Evidently unconcerned as to the indictment this scene constitutes for the society in whose establishment they are complicit, the applause that follows is provided by several prominent co-conspirators. They include PA prime minister Salam Fayyad - "a moderate politician widely respected among the international community" (source); Secretary General of the Presidential Office, Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim; Secretary of the PLO Executive Council, Yasser Abd Rabbo; Laila Ghannam - District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh; Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf.
It's not possible that the leaders present at this event failed to understand the message directed at their people's children. The facts about Palestinian Arab education of their children speak for themselves.
So does the report below.
Education at a Glance 2011, a study published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) demonstrates again that some societies have far higher levels of educational attainment than others. This news report published today ranks the 10 developed countries with the most educated populations. It's worth noting that Israel, with the smallest per capita income on the list, comes in at number 2, ahead of the United States, Japan and South Korea.
Peace cannot be made by education departments any more than war is caused by doctors. But there's a lot that can be learned by how countries implant expectations and ambitions in the minds of the continuing generations and how this impacts on the future. By and large, our side is focused on creating capable, concerned citizens with the equipment to succeed anywhere, and the evidence is out there to see. Theirs wants a young generation that will grow to become fertilizer and dirt, and the evidence for this is available to anyone who wants to look.

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PHUKET CITY: Police yesterday afternoon announced the arrest of a six-person ya bah (methamphetamine) gang who allegedly sold the drug to youths at Saphan Hin.
In an attempt to avoid capture, one of the gang members allegedly tried to shoot at police, but his homemade gun failed to fire.
Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Apirak Hongtong identified the suspects as gang leader 23-year-old Bangkok native Nattapon "Big" Udchin; his girlfriend Nipaporn "Kam" Polkongnok, 22, from Udon Thani; Nipon "Lek" Nunkuntod and Tossaporn "Jack" Sakhunthod, both 19 and both from Chaiyaphum; Natthapon "Ood" Supanaam, 27, from Phang Nga; and Chutima "Nong" Suriyayothin, 25, from Phuket.
After a receiving a tip-off that Oot, Nong and Jack had been selling ya bah to local youths at 350 baht a pill, undercover police officers arranged to buy the drug from the trio just before 1 am yesterday.
When the officers identified themselves, Ood allegedly pulled out a gun and tried to shoot one of them, but his weapon failed to fire.
The three were found in possession of 17 ya bah pills and three handguns: two of them homemade and the third a loaded stainless-steel .32 caliber automatic pistol.
During questioning, the three identified their suppliers as Big and Lek, then led officers to the house where Big was staying with his girlfriend (Lek) at the Phuket Villa Dowroong housing estate off Chao Fa East Rd in Wichit.
There, police arrested the other three suspects and seized 560 pills and two weapons, one of them a 12-gauge shotgun with 20 shells.
In total, 147 bullets and shells of various calibers were seized, including 111 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition.
Also seized were three motorbikes, three mobile phones and three glass pipes used for smoking ya bah.
All six suspects have been charged with possession of Class 1 narcotics with intent to sell. Further charges are pending following an investigation into the weapons the gang had acquired.
Gen Apriak explained that the gang bought the pills in Bangkok in lots of 800 and had them delivered to Phuket by parcel on regularly scheduled buses, paying for each shipment by electronic bank transfer.
The gang identified their two suppliers in Bangkok only by their nicknames: Go and Meng.
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4 billion baht medical hub planned for Phuket
Phuket officials are setting aside around 4 billion baht to transform medical tourism in the southern province of Phuket, by developing a state-of-the-art treatment hub in the north of the island. The Bangkok Post reports that the Treasury department is planning to give the Public Health Ministry permission to use 141 rai of government land in the sub-district of Mai Khao, close to Phuket International Airport. It's not the first time the proposal has come to light.
The concept is gathering support as Phuket battles to diversify its attraction beyond a tropical holiday island.
The aim is to develop Phuket as a world-class health and wellness destination, with facilities that will attract medical tourists from all over the world, as well as providing a high standard of treatment to the local population. It's understood the facility will provide a full range of health services, including long-term care, and hospice and rehabilitation services.
The island already has a well-developed medical tourism market, but has been based around local hospitals and clinics linking up with foreign marketing companies in the past. "The International Medical and Public Health Service" has been conceived to create more long term financial security and diversification, and value-added tourism in Phuket, as the island has taken a heavy financial hit over the past 7 months.
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The plan was first suggested in 2017, by then governor, Noraphat Plodthong and confirmed by the director of Phuket's Vachira Hospital, Dr. Chalermpong Sukontapol, in July. At that stage, the estimated budget was 3-4 billion baht. The director-general of the Treasury department, Yuthana Yimkarun, says the plot is being offered to the Health Ministry for free. The land is thought be worth around 1 billion baht.
Yuthana says the ministry will manage investment, with approximately 2 billion baht required for the first stage of the project. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed over 2 years.
Meanwhile, it's understood that unused government land that is currently managed by various government agencies may be moved under the remit of central government, with a view to increasing its worth. According to the Bangkok Post report, just 4% of government land is directly managed by the Treasury. The other 96% is controlled by various government agencies. Yuthana says the plan is to increase the percentage of state-owned land under the Treasury's management to 10% within 2 years.
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"Open the borders, safely", Bill Heinecke, Minor International interview – VIDEO
Bill Heinecke speaks to Bill Barnett. The two heavy-hitters of Thailand's hotel and hospitality sector, mull over the current Covid situation and the reopening of Thailand's borders to some form of tourism. Bill Heinecke is the Chairman and Founder of Minor International.
Bill Barnett is the Managing Director of c9hotelworks.com
Now the Thai government has approved the special long-term tourist visa scheme (STV), hoteliers are remaining skeptical about reopening due to the lack of clarity in the recent announcement, which will reportedly take effect next month. The president of the Thai Hotels Association's southern chapter says more hoteliers will consider reopening if the government gives further information about the plan in terms of prospective markets, arrival dates, origin countries, and flights.
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Now they're coming… Special Tourist Visa flight set for Tuesday – Tourism and Sports Minister
After much confusion and a few apparent 'misunderstandings', Chinese tourists on the Special Tourist Visa will actually arrive on October 20 and 26. At least that's what Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn says, according to the Bangkok Post. The first group is said to arrive 4 days from now in Bangkok (if they actually applied for the visa this time).
Reports circulated for weeks about a flight of 120 to 150 tourists set to arrive in Phuket on October 8 from Guangzhou, China. An announcement was made shortly after the flight was due to arrive with Tourism Authority Governor Yuthasak Supasorn saying "administrative issues" had caused the delay.
It was later reported that no one from Guangzhou had actually applied for the visa and it was all just a misunderstanding after the Tourism Authority of Thailand reportedly passed off a list of those "interested" in the visa as actual applications.
This time, the Post is reporting the first group of 120 tourists from Guangzhou will arrive at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday. Another group of 120 tourists, also from Guangzhou, will arrive on October 26, but the Post didn't say where that flight will land.
It's apparently the same group that was planned to arrive in Phuket on October 8, but the minister claims the trip was postponed due to the Vegetarian Festival which is planned to run until October 25. Both the Phuket governor and National Security Council secretary general had claimed the festival was the reason for the delayed flight and was intended to ease fears of Covid-19 for the festival-goers coming in from the rest of Thailand.
Even though the new long stay tourist visa is good for 90 days, and can be renewed twice, the tourists will only stay in the country for 30 days, with 14 of those days in quarantine. Phiphat says the Tourism Authority of Thailand will find activities to keep the tourists occupied while in quarantine.
The visitors will be the first international tourists after a 6 month ban to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Thai officials have been discussing plans for months about how to safely reopen borders to revive the country's economy which is heavily driven by the tourism industry. Officals are now talking about cutting down the mandatory time for quarantine from 14 days to 7 days to help entice people to visit.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post
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Earlier today, the First Department of New York State's Appellate Division upheld a ruling that struck down Mayor Bloomberg's controversial portion cap rule or "soda ban." The ban would've prohibited movie theatres and other restaurants and eating establishments from serving specific sugary beverages in quantities larger than 16 ounces. Of course diet sodas were exempt and patrons would still be able to purchase multiple 16 ounce beverages, but logic, or something...
The unanimous decision by the Appellate Division stated, "the Board of Health failed to act within the bounds of its lawfully delegated authority. Accordingly, we declare the regulation to be invalid, as violative of the principle of separation of powers." Ouch.
Unlike the prior ruling which found the portion cap rule to be, "arbitrary and capricious," the Appellate Division did not dive into this issue. Rather they vetted whether or not the New York City Board of Health amending a rule with wide reaching ramifications crossed into legislative authority. The Appellate Division did take the time to express their concern that the portion cap rule, "necessarily looks beyond health concerns, in that it manipulates choices to try to change consumer norms."
Had the rule change sanctioning the portion cap rule remained in tact, countless small businesses might have suffered. The NAACP New York State Conference and the Hispanic Federation alleged the portion cap rule would, "selectively and unfairly harm small and minority-owned businesses by discriminatorily preventing them from selling large 'sugary beverages' while allowing their large competitors such as 7-11 and grocery stores to carry the banned sugary beverages," in an amicus brief. While the Appellate Division did not make any claims regarding minority owned business, they did recognize that the portion cap rule, "resulted in a ban that includes exceptions which necessarily favors some businesses and products at the expenses of others."
Bloomberg insisted "today's decision is a temporary setback, and we plan to appeal this decision as we continue the fight against the obesity epidemic." Meanwhile, Bloomberg is urging Congress to prohibit the use of foodstamps for the purchase of sugary drinks.
I am glad to see that some lawmakers still have some common sense. It is hard for me to believe that a city would even waste time or money on this issue. If you follow this line of reasoning should a person have to bring in multiple ID's to prove that they have friends sharing the extra large pizza they just bought. Obesity is definitely an issue in America, but it is a person's responsibility to seek help if they suffer form being over weight.


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This story appears in the February 1998 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
We're not talking hours. We're not talking minutes. We're not even talking seconds. No, to get to consumers in the hyperpaced (and cyberspaced) 1990s, it can conceivably take only milliseconds. Fast. Faster. Fastest. What an astounding, confounding and pulse-pounding time in which we live. And this push to gratify consumers in an instant--even as the jesters among us contend that instant gratification itself now takes too long--is not a phenomenon destined to lose steam.
"Customers have so many choices today that they can be very fussy about whom they buy from," observes Roger Blackwell, author of From Mind to Market: Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain (HarperBusiness). "If a store can't provide what they want, when they want it, they have plenty of alternatives that will."
It wasn't always this way, of course. Even assembly-line pioneer Henry Ford once sardonically suggested customers could have any color of car they wanted--as long as it was black. Those days are long gone. Instead, consumers are now asking for--and getting--the speed foreshadowed by Ford's assembly line coupled with choices galore. "Today, consumers have a lot of power," says Regis McKenna, chair of Palo Alto, California, business and marketing strategy firm The McKenna Group and author of Real Time: Preparing for the Age of the Never Satisfied Customer (Harvard Business School Press). "Technology providing immediate feedback [is in place], and it's building higher and higher expectations by the consumer for immediate service."
Full Speed Ahead
So what's the rush? Technology, particularly the Internet, has accelerated the pace of doing business to the point where being fast enough no longer is. "You have to be a Tiger Woods of the business world," says Blackwell. "We've set a new standard. I remember when people said it was impossible to run the four-minute mile--then Roger Bannister did it. A similar thing is happening in business: The Roger Bannisters and the Tiger Woodses are setting new benchmarks, so if you can't run the four-minute mile, don't bother to show up."
Blackwell's words ring true. Whether you refer to it as "just-in-time delivery," "real time" or "Internet time," the idea of fast-forwarding products or services to consumers in record time is revolutionizing the business world. "This is an irreversible trend," says David Peyton, director of technology policy for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). "There's no going back."
Or slowing down. As computers keep chipping away at our notions of what constitutes quick turnaround, the race is on for entrepreneurs to prove themselves capable of running that metaphorical mile in Roger Bannister's sneakers.
"One of the great mistakes many entrepreneurs make is they think if they have a good product, they'll be successful; that's no longer true," insists Blackwell, who is also a professor of marketing at The Ohio State University in Columbus. "A good product is essential, but an efficient supply chain is equally important. And that involves state-of-the-art logistics. There's a war going on between putting money into assets like inventories, warehouses and trucks, or putting money into information from the computer. And the [computer] nerds are winning the war."
Blackwell's point is clear: The swift of feet realize that in today's market, they must take an entirely new approach to business.
What's New?
To Blackwell's way of thinking, the increasing competitiveness of the marketplace is rendering the traditional supply chain obsolete. "In supply chains, the products normally start in the mind of the manufacturer, and they're pushed through to distributors, then to retailers and eventually to consumers," he says. "But when you reinvent this supply chain, you start with the mind of the consumer. I call it a `demand chain.' "
Peyton, too, points out the shift in emphasis in favor of consumer demand. "[Business is] much more customer-demand-driven than it was in the past," he says. "You have operations that have this as the ultimate imperative rather than having things organized according to how long it takes to get machine tools set up to do a production run. It's forcing companies to be much more agile--and to have faster inventory turnovers."
Again, the idea is to have exactly the right product at exactly the right time. Relatively simple in theory? Yes. Just as simple in execution? Not really. "It's easy to talk about the concepts of logistics, but it's difficult to do them," says Blackwell. "That's why execution is so important. Entrepreneurs might say `Well, yes, I can see the importance of it'--that's the first step. The next step is doing it, and that's the hard part."
Ironically, at the same time companies are striving for speed in the marketplace, they're also struggling to hold down costs through low inventories. For examples of real companies doing this--and doing it right--Blackwell points to the computer industry. "In the traditional supply chain, a computer company decides what is to be made and then builds it and puts it into inventory," he explains. "At Dell Computer and Gateway 2000, however, they've revolutionized the computer business because they don't make the computer until somebody orders it. That's much more efficient."
Leaders Of The Pack
Efficient, yes. But isn't the trimming of inventories a potentially risky maneuver at a time when consumers are loath to wait for the product of their choice? What if something as unexpected as, say, a UPS strike slows down the wheels of delivery? "In doing this high-wire act, [businesses] have become a lot more dependent on everyone else to do their jobs and do them on time," says Peyton. "If you look at it as a vulnerability, then that's the price we pay for the privilege of having a system that's more attuned to ultimate consumer demand and has succeeded in squeezing out some of the inventory costs that used to be there."
On the plus side, entrepreneurs may find themselves in a position of advantage in this business-be-nimble, business-be-quick era. "Small companies can notoriously move faster than large companies," says Ted Lewis, author of The Friction-Free Economy: Strategies for Success in a Wired World (HarperBusiness). Lewis, who heads the Salinas, California-based high-tech consulting firm Technology Assessment Group, recommends a two-pronged approach to stay ahead of the pack. First, make your own products obsolete before another company does. And second, if your company falls behind in its industry, adapt the latest innovations in your own way and extend the innovation further. "A small company that has an expertise or niche in the market can always compete against even the largest companies," Lewis assures, "if they stay ahead of them."
But aren't instant-gratification-seeking consumers focused exclusively on speed, speed, speed? Not necessarily. It's imperative for a company to stay on the cutting edge because modern-day consumers don't just want what they want when they want it--they want exactly what they want, too. "Just having a good product at a good price worked in the past, but it's not enough for the new millennium," cautions Blackwell. "The consumer reins."
Speed Racers
Clearly, such elevation of consumer demands begs renewed consideration of just who exactly these consumers are in the first place--and why are they so speed-happy? Perhaps a little historical perspective is in order. Of course, we're talking about an unprecedented pace of life born from the fruits of recent technological advances--but we're also talking about a society that has always subscribed to the point of view that faster is better.
"I don't see this so much in other societies," Lewis says. "The Germans, the Japanese, the French and so on are not hooked on speed--or change. But the American way is the idea that things will always get better."
And, like it or not, getting better is irrevocably linked to getting faster. "Clearly, the United States is on the leading edge of [the quicker-is-better revolution]," agrees McKenna. "The trend is toward more and more of this sit back and push a button and get whatever you want. The TV remote control, for example, will [some day] also be a computer so if you see a product [you like], you'll simply push a button and order it. This isn't Buck Rogers; this isn't 20 years from now. This is within the next five years."
Not for a moment, moreover, should you entertain thoughts of going against the tide. "Imagine making televisions without remote controls today--nobody would buy them," McKenna contends. "And yet, what we're asking the consumer to do is get up and walk perhaps 10 feet across the room and push a button or turn a knob. But we've become so accustomed [to not doing this] that we won't buy such a TV set."
Or sit through double features at a movie theater. Or opt for bank teller service instead of ATMs. Or forsake the speedier microwave in favor of the good old-fashioned oven. "We are gradually becoming so adapted and accustomed to this real-time technology that it's changing us in subtle ways," McKenna concludes. "We're not even conscious of it."
But business owners, in particular, must tune in to this changing frequency.
Partners In Time
Interestingly, business owners have a potentially powerful ally in providing consumers with the instant gratification they crave: consumers themselves. "Adding systems where your customers can help themselves but can go away feeling content about it is key," says McKenna. For example, think of a furniture store that has every product consumers want in stock--provided the consumers are willing to assemble them themselves. Then, too, there is the delivery company that allows its customers to track the progress of their own packages. And, yes, there are the no-longer-reserved-only-for-tech-companies Web sites that provide opportunities for customization and customer service heretofore only dreamed of.
"All of these things are possible because technology is enabling consumers to have access to channels and information to serve themselves," McKenna explains. (Ironically, the very same consumers who won't walk 10 feet to turn the TV dial.)
At any rate, the future shock long predicted by pundits and philosophers alike has finally come to pass--and with it, a shocking new level of customer expectations has become the standard. Although much of the next few years remains difficult to predict, the very speed at which we'll experience these years seems all but guaranteed.
"The speed with which you can communicate is going to increase at a very rapid rate--just in the next decade," McKenna says confidently. "And we already think it's fast."
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Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres.
- See also: The Road, No Country for Old Men (film)
- There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
- The New York Times, April 19, 1992, "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward
- I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
- The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen
- I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
- The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen
The Orchard Keeper (1965)Edit
- Yes, he said. I busted him and he busted me. That's fair, ain't it?
The boy was still silent, calmly incredulous.
No, Sylder went on, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested me that throws it off again I reckon? I don't. It's his job. It's what he gets paid for. To arrest people that break the law. And I didn't jest break the law, I made a livin at it.
Outer Dark (1968)Edit
- The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.
- And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.
- Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.
She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
- Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles.
Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.
- And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
- What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.
- Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineheards but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom.
- Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.
- I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
Child of God (1973)Edit
- It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. (p.71)
- Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)
- In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. (p.130)
- He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he is sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their blood in history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him? (p.147)
- Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
- You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
- He dreamt that night that he rode through the woods on a low ridge. Below him he could see deer in a meadow where the sun fell on the grass. The grass was still wet and the deer stood in it to their elbows. He could feel the spine of the mule rolling under him and he gripped the mule's barrel with his legs. Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed, he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins slender like bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day ever was and he was riding to his death. (p.162)
Suttree (1979)Edit
- In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
- Chapter 1, page 28
- How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
- page 153
- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
- page 4
- Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.
- page 130
- Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.
- page 154
- He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
- I believe it's the end of the world.
Harrogate was looking at the pavement. He said it again.
Look at me, Suttree said.
He looked up. Sad pinched face, streaked with grime.
Are you serious?
Well what do you think about it?
Suttree laughed.
It aint funny, said Harrogate.
You're funny, you squirrely son of a bitch. Do you think the world will end just because you're cold?
It aint just me. It's cold all over.
It's not cold by Rufus's stove. Now get your ass up there. I'll see you later.
- page 173
- The priest looked at him. Do I know you? he said.
Suttree placed one hand on the pew in front of him. An old woman was going along the altar rail with a dusting rag. He struggled to his feet. No, he said. You dont know me.
The priest stepped back, inspecting is clothes, his fishstained shoes.
I just fell asleep a minute. I was resting.
The priest gave a little smile, lightly touched with censure, remonstrance gentled. God's house is not exactly the place to take a nap, he said.
It's not God's house.
I beg your pardon?
It's not God's house.
Suttree waved his hand vaguely and stepped past the priest and went down the aisle. The priest watched him. He smiled sadly, but a smile for that.
- page 255
- And what happens then?
After you're dead.
Dont nothing happen. You're dead.
You told me once you believed in God.
The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I'd like to see him for a minute if I could.
What would you say to him?
Well, I think I'd just tell him. I'd say: Wait a minute. Wait just one minute before you start in on me. Before you say anything, there's just one thing I'd like to know. And he'll say: what's that? And then I'm goin to ast him: What did you have me in that crapgame down there for anyway? I couldnt put any part of it together.
Suttree smiled. What do you think he'll say?
The ragpicker spat and wiped his mouth. I dont believe he can answer it. I dont believe there is an answer.
- page 258
- Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
Blood Meridian (1985)Edit
- He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
- Chapter I
- A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
- Chapter II
- There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
- Chapter III
- Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them
- Chapter III
- The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.
- Chapter IV
- The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
- Chapter IV
- A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or saber done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.
- Chapter IV
- When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
- Chapter V
- All lightly shimmering in the heat, these lifeforms, like wonders much reduced. Rough likenesses thrown up at hearsay after the things themselves had faded in men's minds.
- Chapter VI
- The judge smiled. It is not necessary, he said, that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts—to the extent that they can be readily made to do so—should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol enacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
- Chapter VII
- God don't lie.... And these are his words.... He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
- Chapter IX, Judge Holden
- For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
- Chapter IX
- And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
- Chapter IX
- For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
- Chapter X
- Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
- Chapter XI
- All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
- Chapter XI, Judge Holden
- They rode on. They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.
- Chapter XII
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
- A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
- ...words were said that could not be put right again...
- ...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
- ...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
- People see what they want to see.
- ...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
- How many is there, John?.
Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?
- I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
- ...he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
- The hour that followed was a long hour.
- ...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
- You can't be all Mexican. It's like being all mongrel.
- This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one?
- I could have been somebody in this world wasn't for him.
- What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
- … and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be.
- Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
- La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
- My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
- I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. —John Joel Glanton.
- Jackson, pistols drawn, lurched into the street vowing to shoot the ass off Jesus Christ, the longlegged white son of a bitch.
- Men are made of the dust of the earth.
- What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
- What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It's a great thing, the dance.
- Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?
- And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons.
- The judge looked about him. He was sat before the fire naked save for his breeches and his hands rested palm down upon his knees. His eyes were empty slots. None among the company harbored any notion as to what this attitude implied, yet so like an icon was he in his sitting that they grew cautious and spoke with circumspection among themselves as if they would not waken something that had better been left sleeping.
- The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
- Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
- Whatever exists, he [the judge] said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
- Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. — The judge
- Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. — The judge.
- The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
- The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. — The judge.
- His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.
- The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons, coins, men. His hands moved as if he were pulling something from one fist in a series of elongations. Watch the coin, Davey, he said.
- It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
- The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.
- War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. — The judge
- Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
- Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views. His very involvement in such a trial gives evidence of a new and broader view. — The judge
- In that sleep and in sleep to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene. Whatever his antecedents, he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.
- Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. — The judge
- At dusk they halted and built a fire and roasted the deer. The night was much enclosed about them and there were no stars. To the north they could see other fires that burned red and sullen along the invisible ridges. They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode up into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement. Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
All the Pretty Horses (1992)Edit
- ....A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
- You think about all that stuff that can happen to you, he said. There aint no end to it.
- He said we were full of shit. But in a nice way.
- When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.
- Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?
- What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.
I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.
- The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.
- I dont see you holdin no aces.
- I never knowed there was such a place as this.
I guess there's probably every kind of place you can think of.
- Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
- You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?
- He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
- It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.
- She came from the shower wrapped in a towel and she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him. I cannot do what you ask, she said. I love you. But I cannot. He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.
- He lay listening to the horse crop the grass at his stakerope and he listened to the wind in the emptiness and watched stars trace the arc of the hemisphere and die in the darkness at the edge of the world and as he lay there the agony in his heart was like a stake. He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.
- He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he'd not known since he was a child and he felt wholly alien to the world although he loved it still. He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.
- He thought he'd be an object of some curiosity but the people he saw only nodded gravely to him and passed on. He carried the bucket back into the store and went down the street to where there was a small cafe and he entered and sat at one of the three small wooden tables. The floor of the cafe was packed mud newly swept and he was the only customer. He stood the rifle against the wall and ordered huevos revueltos and a cup of chocolate and he sat and waited for it to come and then he ate very slowly. The food was rich to his taste and the chocolate was made with canela and he drank it and ordered another and folded a tortilla and ate and watched the horses standing in the square across the street and watched the girls. They'd hung the gazebo with crepe and it looked like a festooned brush-pile. The proprietor showed him great courtesy and brought him fresh tortillas hot from the comal and told him that there was to be a wedding and that it would be a pity if it rained. He inquired where he might be from and showed surprise he'd come so far. He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
- Where is your country? he said.
I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
- I cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else.
- There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.
- It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God—who knows all that can be known—seems powerless to change.
The Crossing (1994)Edit
- If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
- The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
- When he looked back at the primadonna she was watching them through the spyglasses. As if she might better assess them in that way where they set forth upon the shadowbanded road, the coming twilight. Inhabiting only that ocular ground in which the country appeared out of nothing and vanished again into nothing, tree and rock and the darkening mountains beyond, all of it contained and itself containing only what was needed and nothing more.
- We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
- Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.
- Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.
- You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.
- He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?
- He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it. Even this man may be appalled at what is revealed to him and seek some order to stand against it. Yet in all of this there are two things which perhaps he will not know. He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
- The world has no name, he said. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them so that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. That they cannot find for us the way again.
- He said that both views were one view and that while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out. He smiled. He spoke as one who seemed to understand that death was the condition of existence and life but an emanation thereof.
- If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
- In the night as he slept Boyd came to him and squatted by the deep embers of the fire as he'd done times by the hundreds and smiled his soft smile that was not quite cynical and he took off his hat and held it before him and looked down into it. In the dream he knew that Boyd was dead and that the subject of his being so must be approached with a certain caution for that which was circumspect in life must be doubly so in death and he'd no way to know what word or gesture might subtract him back again into that nothingness out of which he'd come. When finally he did ask him what it was like to be dead Boyd only smiled and looked away and would not answer. They spoke of other things and he tried not to wake from the dream but the ghost dimmed and faded and he woke and lay looking up at the stars through the bramblework of the treelimbs and he tried to think of what that place could be where Boyd was but Boyd was dead and wasted in his bones wrapped in the soogan upriver in the trees and he turned his face to the ground and wept.
Cities of the Plain (1998)Edit
- The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
- The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
- Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
No Country for Old Men (2005)Edit
- Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
- Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldnt even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People dont pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that nothing is the same. Well, you say. It's just a coin. For instance. Nothing special there. What could that be an instrument of? You see the problem. To separate the act from the thing. As if the parts of some moment in history might be interchangeable with the parts of some other moment. How could that be? Well, it's just a coin. Yes. That's true. Is it?
- The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. But I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is. It's the thing you're talkin about. I've heard it compared to the rock — maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But it'll be here even when the rock is gone. I'm sure they's people would disagree with that. Quite a few, in fact. But I never could find out what any of them did believe.
- People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.
- It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?
- I'll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that
- It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
- Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.
- It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.
- You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?
- Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
- If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
- Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.
- Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
- My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
- If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
- He (Wells) closed his eyes and he turned his head and he raised one hand to fend away what could not be fended away. Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him. His mother's face, his First Communion, women he had known. The faces of men as they died on their knees before him. The body of a child dead in a roadside ravine in another country.
- [H]e knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
- The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.
- How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
- When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.
- I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
- You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
- I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.
- It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
- I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
- [W]hen you encounter certain things in the world, the evidence for certain things, you realize that you have come upon somethin that you may very well not be equal to and I think that this is one of them things. When you've said that it's real and not just in your head I'm not all that sure what it is you have said.
- There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
The Sunset Limited (2006)Edit
- Black: Belief aint like unbelief. If you a believer then you got to come finally to a well of belief itself and then you dont have to look no further. There aint no further. But the unbeliever has got a problem. He has set out to unravel the world, but everthing he can point to that aint true leaves two new things layin there. If God walked the earth when he got done makin it then when you get up in the mornin' you get to put your feet on a real floor and you dont have to worry about where it come from. But if he didnt then you got to come up with a whole other description of what you even mean by real. And you got to judge everything by that same light. If light is is. Includin yourself. One question fits all.
- White: I long for Darkness. I pray for death, real death. And if I thought that in death I would meet the people I knew in life, I don't know what I would do. That would be the ultimate horror, the ultimate nightmare. If I thought I was gonna meet my mother again an' start all of that over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to... that would be the final nightmare. Goddamn Kafka on wheels.
- White: You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.


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I asked a similar question on android.stackexchange.com and I'd like to see how the answer compares for iOS devices:
If my iPhone is stolen, can I remotely brick the thing, so resale value drops to zero?
For apps like Apple's Find My Phone, how feasible is it for a thief to remove the apps? The answer to this sort of motivates my asking the first question about bricking. The more possible it is to remove the remote tracking/data erasing apps, the higher incentive I might have to just brick the thing, cut my losses, and deprive the thief of any profit from his/her crime.


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Chris Shiflett, in working on a new, cleaner and leaner version of his site, shiflett.org, has come across a few "PHP tidbits" that he shares in his latest entry.
Just for fun, I'd like to share a couple of quick PHP tidbits with you that I wrote instead of starting on the real project at hand.
This post is the first of them, demonstrating two things . The first of which how you can make a useful tool with the SimpleXML functionality of PHP 5 and a REST API (like his example from Feedburner). His example grabs the statistics from the Feedburner API and pulls out the circulation number with two lines of code.
The second bit of functionality he shares is a quick function for shortening URLs to make them a bit easier to manage. It insets the ellipsis into the middle of the long URL to make it easier to squeeze into that layout.


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Just some Doctor Who facts and some of the best lines...
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Casey Anthony Case, Lawyer Releases Book With Hidden Details (VIDEO)
Casey Anthony Case, Lawyer Releases Book With Hidden Details (VIDEO)
Casey Anthony is not guilty, says her lawyers, because she was mentally ill at the time of her daughter's murder.
"Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story," which hits stores on July 3, will tell Anthony's story from her lawyer's perspective.
Jose Baez, the man who represented Anthony throughout the trial in which she was charged for murdering her 2-year-old daughter, has set out to prove that Anthony was not guilty because she was mentally insane.
Baez argues in the book that police should have questioned Anthony when she led them to her pretend job at Universal Studios. He charges that they "should have stopped and realized, 'Wait a minute, we're not dealing with someone who is playing with a full deck.'"
In the book, the lawyer will reveal previously unheard details about Anthony's "secret world" and what went on behind court proceedings, including how he helped her escape reporters after the "not guilty" verdict had been announced.
Describing Anthony's get away, he revealed that musical chair car game was involved,
"He said once he and Casey, in a bright pink Polo shirt, got into the SUV they went to a parking garage and then got into another car while four of the same decoy cars left at the same time," Radar Online reported. "With Casey he boarded a private plane and went to the Florida Panhandle resort community of St. George Island and members of their legal team and their families met with them."
Baez, however, appears to take the same tone in the book as he did in court, defending that Anthony did not kill her little girl but rather that Caylee Anthony drowned in the pool. He alleged that Anthony did not report the incident out of fears that she had developed after being sexually abused by her father, and that it was George Anthony that hid the girl's body.