somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands – e.e. cummings, [somewhere i have never travelled]

these are the words but not the truth –Sonic Youth, "The Empty Page"

Objectivism holds that there is mind-independent reality; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that human beings gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and form valid concepts by measurement omission; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest"; that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness. –Wikipedia, on Objectivism

As logic stands you couldn't meet a man Who's from the future But logic broke as he appeared he spoke About the Future "We're not gonna make it" He explained how the end will come - you and me were never meant to be part of the future - All we have is now - All we've ever had was now All we have is now All we'll ever have is now –The Flaming Lips, "All We Have is Now"

Bono’s “Mirror Ball Man” from the Zoo TV Tour was a parody (a mirror?) of American televangelists: