Ginger Magnum

I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene    THE QUIET AMERICAN

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Graham Greene  THE QUIET AMERICAN

From childhood I had never believed in permanence and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. Graham Greene  THE QUIET AMERICAN

"Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms." Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation Henry David Thoreau  Walden