This time has been absolutely fascinating because it doesn’t talk at all about us (whatever us means around me now).

Or perhaps it talks. A little.

Fires were started and they are coming. One of them won’t be back. And life cannot but keep going on. In this thirty nine seconds sequence their faces already say they’ve been there, and will go again.

So a simple story, but got me deep. Love that kind of narrative.

There are no intenciones anymore. Only action and no action.

1. One thing at a time.
2. Most important thing first.
3. Start now.

From Skelliewag. And yes, I know I shared it just days ago.

—No swordplay?
—Don’t seek combat, Saxon, seek resolution.

Mouse Guard, Winter 1152, #1.

—All those pineapples gave me a stomachache, so I went to a bar. I thought alcohol would settle my stomach.

—You know better than me, sir. It’s easy enough making them do what they want to do. It’s trying to get them to do what you want them to do that gives you a headache.

These two places have a little of the innocence and egolessness which is necesary to the quality without a name. And why? Because the people who made them simply do not care what people think of them. I don’t mean that they are defiant: people who defiantly don’t care what other people think of them, they still care at least enough to be defiant—and that is still a posture.

Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building.

These places are not innocent, and cannot reach the quality without a name, because they are made with an outward glance. The people who made them make them the way they do because they are trying to convey something, some image, to the world outside. Even when they are made to seem natural, even their naturalness is calculated; it is in the end a pose.

Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein.

But you already knew procedure manuals won’t keep you away from disaster. Not to talk of getting you out of one.

You knew… didn’t you? didn’t you?

The eight-episode story arc this anime squence belongs to is a narrative double or nothing. Not an easy meal, you love it or you stop watching the series and burn the dvds. But to hell with fanservice dirty tricks, haruhi dares!

We know you can do better (and better yet in the original episode order).

Altough the process is precise, and can be defined in exact scientific terms, finally it becomes valuable, not so much because it shows us things which we don’t know, but instead, because it show us what we know already, only daren’t admit because it seems so childish, and so primitive.

Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building.