Commentary by management consultant Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
Friday, November 03, 2017
True
“Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges— “Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!”
- Rudyard Kipling
[Photograph by Priss Enriquez at Unsplash]
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long-forgotten poem” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10835-all-my-life-my-heart-has-sought-a-thing-i https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
A bit of further research seems to indicate it's from André Breton, Mad Love. “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/106441-l-amour-fou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Breton
I've never read any André Breton, maybe I will someday. But I've read a fair amount of Hunter S Thompson, and one that always sticks in my mind is this one: Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson https://riderbesafe.com/2014/04/20/song-of-the-sausage-creature-by-hunter-s-thompson/
It's along the lines of a motorcycle cult classic, barely coherent outside the genre. But I guess sometimes that's how seeking goes, particularly madness-driven. Once in a while failure to achieve your goal tells you more than achieving it, and if you're standing at a crossroad when the moment of realization hits, it can point in what you think is a helpful direction. Certain disclaimers apply.
The Explorer Rudyard Kipling 1898 http://somethinghidden.com/
Thanks, Michael, I'd not read this bit of Kipling before. Digging into Kipling can be a real pleasure, or a revelation.
2 comments:
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10835-all-my-life-my-heart-has-sought-a-thing-i
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
A bit of further research seems to indicate it's from André Breton, Mad Love.
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/106441-l-amour-fou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Breton
I've never read any André Breton, maybe I will someday. But I've read a fair amount of Hunter S Thompson, and one that always sticks in my mind is this one:
Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson
https://riderbesafe.com/2014/04/20/song-of-the-sausage-creature-by-hunter-s-thompson/
It's along the lines of a motorcycle cult classic, barely coherent outside the genre. But I guess sometimes that's how seeking goes, particularly madness-driven. Once in a while failure to achieve your goal tells you more than achieving it, and if you're standing at a crossroad when the moment of realization hits, it can point in what you think is a helpful direction. Certain disclaimers apply.
The Explorer
Rudyard Kipling
1898
http://somethinghidden.com/
Thanks, Michael, I'd not read this bit of Kipling before. Digging into Kipling can be a real pleasure, or a revelation.
Jim
Jim,
Thanks for your comments and references.
Kipling has often been underestimated but you are correct: he can be a real pleasure, or revelation.
Michael
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