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Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter
like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on
and ten blocks down I still can't tell
whether this dispersal resembles
a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.
going on between-- Pat White
There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
smacking his fist into
Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
In the almost film-like flitting-by of modern life, a man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself, and nothing can give him this assurance in so comforting a manner as the "four feet trotting behind".
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
Yielding, like ice about to melt.
Parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host.
You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?"
"Thinking."
"Thinking?"
"A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.
Losing his hair. Ms. Chase and me,
Sleeping. The word came out with an adorable lack of anything resembling an L, closer to something you'd do with a broom than in a bed.
stuttering over your words.
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
consciousness-raising.
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle.
The vicarious policemanship which was the strongest emotion of Englishmen towards another man's muddle, in their case was replaced by the instinct to pass by as discreetly far as possible on the other side.
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
If o'er against her you were plac'd
She durst not look above your Waist
For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
Do not limp before the lame, deeming it a kindness.
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
Tis in our power
(unless we fear that apes can tutor's) to
Be masters of our manners. What need I
Affect another's gait, which is not catching
Where there is faith, or to be found upon
Another's way of speech, when by mine own
I may be reasonably conceived
trails and across rushing,
A becoming in which one never becomes, a becoming whose rule is neither evolution nor asymptote but a certain turning, a certain turning inward, turning into my own / turning on in / to my own self / at last / turning out of the / white cage, turning out of the / lady cage / turning at last.
With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.
A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.
When he's like this, Miss Lowell," Mark offered from his seat on the sofa, "I usually take it upon myself to stamp out in a rage."
"Must I stamp? Or can I sweet out gracefully?" "By all means, sweep.
The way of the parkour is to continue, not to stay here.
Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
Jesse Dittley kicked in the door. It was a slow-motion kick because his leg was so long - there was a considerable lag between when he began to swing his leg and when his foot actually hit the door. Blue wondered what that was called. A leg roundhouse, or something.
There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
A moving or movement away from a station
A waving away from a waving a motion
Amazement a moment amazing a waving
Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath
O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
I d<>ong>onong>'t like too much by-standing, <>ong>onong>-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
We have all been called to be foot-washers".
~R. Alan Woods [2006]
It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.
Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.
Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
I'll be contacting Webster tomorrow. My suggestion will be absofuckingmazing.
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.
Shin'a'in saying
chanting. Neither any of the C.I.s, or this man here,
striving for fabulousness.
Coming nearer and
Giving calls for genius.
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Dancing dismiss distress.
Chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.
Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
Reckless abandon and know that there will be someone
When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
Sonething's getting in the way!
Something's just about to break!
I will try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way,
I still try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane ...
I call masturbating "Gregging," named not after a man named Greg, but a guy named Dave.
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
an incantation of hatred.
True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!
Better is to bow than breake.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour.
Ja, a walk. When two people stand next to each other and their legs move them forward, at which point they can exchange a bit of dialogue and camaraderie? You are familiar with this, ja?
sausages. Behind
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away
[Discipline i]t's the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you've started.
Farting, don't think, just fart.
A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.
abruptly stopping. I don't care. I'm no more dangerous than Mr. Taylor. I
Graceful living; fullness of life.
Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.
Dancing cheek to cheek.
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.