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Awe
We admire people to the extent that we 
cannot explain what they do, and the word
"admire" then means "marvel at."
-B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity


Bewitching Oration
...things have changed. I won't concur
and won't betray my sorrow save
I'll always dress in black and rave.
-Christine de Pisan, "Untitled"


Bonding
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
-William Blake, "London"


Bribes
Bribes, believe me, buy both gods and men.
-Ovid


Business Pressure
A tendency for secretness persists,
And a silent sympathy for it.
-Rilke, "The Pavillion.


Cloak the Gathering
The shadow cloak'd from head to foot...
-Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"


Confusion
Confusion is a word we have invented to
explain an order which is not understood.
-Henry Miller


Cryptic Rider
I am Your slave, and You will reward me,
for I shall be faithful.
-Bram Stoker, Dracula


Deny
What we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is 
what we do.  
John Ruskin


Dirty Little Secrets
There's something addictive about a secret.
-J. Edgar Hoover


Disarming Presence
Nothing makes a prince so much esteemed as
great enterprises and setting a fine example.
-Machiavelli, The Prince


Eyes of Chaos
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
-Paul Cezanne


Faceless Night
You are eternity's hostage, a captive of time.
-Boris Pasternak, Night


Fata Morgana
Seek those images
That constitute the wild...
-Yeats, "Those Images"


Forgotten Labyrinth
I fled Him down the nights and down the days
I fled Him down the arches of the years,
I fled him down the labyrinthine ways...
-Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"


Form of the Serpent
Dear indolent, I love to see
In your body bright
How shimmering like silk the skin
Reflects the light!
-Baudelaire, "The Dancing Serpent"


Gang Tactics
He who is skilled in the attack flashes
forth from the topmost heights of heaven,
making it impossible for the enemy 
to guard against him.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War


Hag's Wrinkles
People look twice when you go in a posh
place like that, but let 'em look.  They'll never
catch you lifting because they don't know 
what they're looking for.
Reg Driscoll, Samedi


Lost in Crowds
...he knows a frightful fiend
doth close behind him tread.
-Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"


Mind Tricks
The power of thought --
the magic of the mind!
-Lord Byron, "The Corsair"


Mirror Image
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Edgar Allen Poe, "A Dream within a Dream"


Patterns in the Chaos
Unlike you, I am Awake, I see the threads
that spin all around you.
-Lilith


Perfect Clarity
Strength of mind and will is still strength.
The Erciyes Fragments


Plasmic Form
Transition is a complete present which
unites the past and the future in a 
momentary progressive ecstasy.
-Juan Ramon Jiminez


Private Audience
What we decide is what happens. The
rest is mere shadowplay, a puppet show.
-Francisco Domingo de Polonia


Rapid Change
Our nature lies in movement;
absolute rest is death.
-Blaise Pascal


Seduction
Letting go is the secret; giving up to me is
the greatest pleasure of all...
-Robbi Sommers, Lilith


Shadow Play
You will close your eyes,
in order not to see, through the glass,
The evening shadows making faces.
-Rimbaud, "A Dream for Winter"


Shroud of Absence
Oh!  I didn't realize you had come in
Marconius.  You catch the city sleeping,
against its nature.
Andrea Giovanni


Shroud of Night
The dragon-wing of night
o'erspreads the earth.
-Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 5, scene 8


Soar
The higher we soar, the smaller we
appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Spectral Divination
My locks are uncurled with dripping, drenching dew.
You know the old, whilst I know the new;
But tomorrow you shall know this too.
-Christina Rossetti, "The Poor Ghost"


Spying Mission
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...
-Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time"


Stone Travel
Half a hole is more than enough.
Bartholomew, Kiasyd


Succulent Vitae
It will have blood, they say; Blood will have Blood.
Shakespeare, Macbeth, act III, scene 4


Swallowed by the Night
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?
-Milton, "Paradise Lost"


Threats
As others might with tenderness
Rule your life and your youngness
I shall rule you with a fear.
-Baudelaire, "The Ghost"


Walk through Arcadia
Those golden times
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings...
-William Cowper, The Winter Evening