"As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realise how insignificant they are." - Peter Cook.
(via David Stubbs)
successor to Thinkige Kru whose feed doesn't seem to be working properly for reasons unknown - the old blog + archive remains here https://thinkigekru.blogspot.com/ -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity - thoughts quoted for the turn of thought / phrase rather than for truth value - quoted not necessarily because i agree with them or approve of them - i don't necessarily agree with my own past thinkiges!
Nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking care...
This reminds me of an anecdote from Michael Winner, where he was walking along an idyllic beach in the Bahamas with John Cleese during a magnificent sunset. Cleese looked across the calm blue ocean, sniffed the gentle scented breeze, and then turned to Winner and said:
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Genius.
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