Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
vertigo
"What is vertigo? Is it the fear of falling? No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptyness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
done with the first two...
Secor claims Split is the easiest 14er after Whitney, but that claim is hard to justify unless only considering Sierra peaks (White Mtn in the Inyos, 14 mi roundtrip on a dirt road is the easiest 14er) and further considering only technical difficulty (Mt. Muir, just off the Mt. Whitney Trail is far easier, but has a class 3 rating for the portion just below the summit). And Mt. Langley via Old Army Pass (or New Army Pass) and the SW Slope is also much easier than an ascent of Split Mtn.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
non serviam
The Latin phrase "non serviam" was spoken by Satan as he refused to serve God. It translates into "I will not serve." Lucifer chose to reign in hell than submit in heaven. Stephen Daedalus in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", said it after his decision to follow the life of an artist, rather than that prescribed to him by the Roman Catholic Church. Who are you serving?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
rather be happy or right?
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Mailer
Thursday, April 10, 2008
generalife
The Palacio de Generalife (Arabic: Jannat al-'Arif - Architect's Garden) was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid sultans of Granada.
The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammad III (1302-1309) and redecorated shortly after by Abu I-Walid Isma'il (1313-1324).
The complex consists of the Patio de la Acequia (Court of the Water Channel or Water-Garden Courtyard), which has a long pool framed by flowerbeds, fountains, colonnades and pavilions, and the JardÃn de la Sultana (Sultana's Garden or Courtyard of the Cypress). The former is thought to best preserve the style of the medieval garden in Al-Andalus. Originally the palace was linked to the Alhambra by a covered walkway across the ravine that now divides them. The Generalife is one of the oldest surviving Moorish gardens.[1]
The present-day gardens were started in 1931 and completed by Francisco Prieto Moreno in 1951. The walkways are paved in traditional Granadian style with a mosaic of pebbles: white ones from the River Darro and black ones from the River Genil.[2]
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