Sunday, January 08, 2006


... shot of bingo and betty.
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6 comments:

zbjernak said...

this doesnt look like a normal old man...
this look like something out of a movie...
i dont know...
really...
are those melon? of cabbages?

3:43 PM
bingo and betty said...

... french canadian melonages ...

7:33 PM
KMJ said...

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships- and sealing wax-
Of cabbages- and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings."

"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.

7:26 AM
bingo and betty said...

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 363


The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 102


Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand page menu and no food.
Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 63

8:23 AM
Mark Klotz said...

I love this photo! What a character this old guy is!

10:59 PM
bingo and betty said...

thanks mark,

p. 88/373 of ZMM — Motorcycles are insane

"That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind — number three tappet is right on too. One more to go. This had better be it — .I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this...that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes...pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts...all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! — Ghosts.

"That's really what Phædrus was talking about when he said it's all in the mind. It sounds insane when you just jump up and say it without reference to anything specific like an engine. But when you tie it down to something specific and concrete, the insane sound tends to disappear and you see he could have been saying something of importance."

8:42 AM

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