“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.
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
ReplyDeleteRemembered 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,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments and references.
Kipling has often been underestimated but you are correct: he can be a real pleasure, or revelation.
Michael