Lake Cocytus: Overheard

A colourful lady in her 80's now, with paranoid schizophrenia that's well controlled, but leaves her with delightfully eccentric foibles.

"No, I don't suffer with madness . . . I enjoy every day of it!"

Why Lake Cocytus?

Dante's "Inferno" takes us on a journey through to the deepest layer of Hell, passing down through layers of fire. Within this Ninth Layer there is no flame, there is a lake of ice. Imprisoned within this are the those of greatest evil, those of greatest betrayal. Rather a puzzle to me, this one. Is it a terrible place, manifesting evil incarnate? Or is Lake Cocytus a good thing, containing the world's greatest evils?

Good or evil this place, this Lake Cocytus, is my space to entomb the thoughts and musings best interred in ice.

You can read more learned views here.

Favourite words of the moment

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us the most."
- Marianne Williamson

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Frederick Nietsche

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
- William Blake

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
- Bob Marley

"Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or the 'joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children'."
- Sergei Lukyanenko

"Look at that. Look at that. "Accident Blackspot"? These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly. Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness."
- Withnail & I

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
- Aneurin Bevan

Lake Cocytus

Monday, 5 July 2010

Overheard

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