“Be Drunk,” Charles Baudelaire
mollyfitz:
You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking…ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.”
This is a really cool story!
On a side note, what’s up with the ridiculous increase in Twitter media coverage during the last two weeks or so? All I see on the news now is Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.
This completely floored me.
Dr. Kim has been a big-name in global health for many, many years now, and I think the global health community is both ecstatic and sad to see him go. Perhaps we’re finally seeing the rising importance of global health in today’s society?
At some point, you have to decide whether you’re going to keep throwing your body at a problem, which is what I’ve always done. You realize that one person can’t do that much. So what I want to do is train an army of leaders to engage with the problems of the world, who will believe the possibilities are limitless, that there’s nothing they can’t do. Being the president of an Ivy League university is an amazing opportunity.
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Dr. Jim Yong Kim, on being appointed the next president of Dartmouth College.
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What is it that makes train stations and bookstores so romantic?
Woman’s boyfriend hid engagement ring in milkshake. Woman swallowed ring. Happily, the crisis passed.
