I am a bricoleur, and will have to clear the rest up for you as I figure it out.
I read it claimed somewhere that Albert Camus said, "once a young man discovers absurdity, that is all that there is." I don't think it matters so much whether the person is young or a man, or even whether they discover it. We all live in this big absurd--for better or worse. The Big Absurd is not loving and serendipitous; it is not sinister and tragic. It is just cool and indifferent--and weird, mostly it is weird.
Should people care to read them, I will post things that strike me as strange and interesting and funny: quotes, images, personal musings, wikipedia articles. I will provide context and commentary when possible. These things should possess a certain quality--or be adjacent to it at least. I don't know what to call this quality yet--could be there isn't one and I am fighting windmills, but in any case here are some examples from each of the mentioned categories:
Quotes:
At the world checkers championship in Glasgow Scotland 1863, it is James Wiley against Robert Martins—the two best checkers players in the world playing a 40 game series. All 40 games opened with the same 3 or 4 same moves. And all 40 games were draws. 21 of the 40 games are the exact same game. Move for move for move they are duplicates. That’s a month of checkers.
– Radiolab - The Rules Will Set You Free
October 12, 1936 – Columbus Day – and Spain’s top brass are gathered in the great hall of Salamanca University – within a hundred yards of Franco’s headquarters – to hear its 72-year-old Dean deliver his National Day address.
Outside, the three-month-old Spanish Civil War rages on. Inside, the atmosphere is taut. "Viva la Muerte! — Long Live Death!" General Astray shouts, his grotesque mutilations and black eye patch lending a sinister appearance as he damns Spain’s Republicans. Ranks of stiff-armed fascist salutes and cries of "Franco, Franco" fill the room. All eyes turn towards Unamuno as he slowly rises…"I want to comment on the speech — to give it that name — of General Millán Astray. Just now, I heard a necrophilic and senseless cry, 'Long live Death!' This outlandish paradox is repellent to me. General Millan Astray is a cripple. Let it be said without any slighting undertone. He is a war invalid. So was Cervantes. But extremes do not make the rule: they escape it.
Unfortunately, there are all too many cripples in Spain now. And soon, there will be even more of them if God does not come to our aid. It pains me to think that General Millán Astray should dictate the pattern of mass psychology. That would be appalling. A cripple who lacks the spiritual greatness of Cervantes — a man, not a superman, virile and complete, in spite of his mutilations — a cripple, I said, who lacks that loftiness of mind, is wont to seek ominous relief in causing mutilation around him."The room listened in stunned silence to this astonishing verbal assault. But the glowering Astray could restrain himself no longer. "DEATH TO INTELLECTUALS!! DOWN WITH INTELLIGENCE" he yelled.
– The Island of Wind via r/historicalancedotes
Wikipedia:
Musings:
In 2014, Mr. Shen wrecked a rare McLaren F1 sports car while on a driving tour in the Italian countryside. The crash made the news after fellow McLaren enthusiast Rowan Atkinson, the British comedic actor who plays 'Mr. Bean,' came to his aid.
You have just crashed your McLaren in a rally in the foreign Italian countryside. You sit in the newly minted multimillion dollar piece of modern art bleeding and consider your life choices.
"Should I have stayed in Singapore? Was hording 6% of the world's aluminum for an eccentric Chinese multibillionaire from a lawless Mexican village in some kind of Bond movie plot the best use of my time? Those cartels that steal the trucks around our armed guards and attack dog patrols can just have every damn bit of the millions of tons of illegal aluminum we have under the tarps and hay. Yeah... if I can just make it back to my million dollar bed in my high rise office/old porn studio in Texas I won't ever leave it again."
You have bled far too long now. The periphery is starting to fade in rhythm with your ever more slowly pumping heart. You know it won't be long now. Just as you are starting your final fade to black, you see a head ease into view from the top of the vacancy where the windshield was. The eyes are comically wide. The mouth sags open quivering, but it is soundless.
It's Mr. Bean...
Images:
Thanks for taking a look. What I hope to get out of this most is to find some like minds.
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