Ambitie

"Alle ambitie begint met de fantasie dat je iemand anders kunt zijn dan wie je bent: overwonnen en geslagen, zonder toekomst en in zekere zin ook zonder verleden. De fantasie is het die je optilt, meesleurt, groter maakt dan je ooit had gedacht te zullen zijn en je dan achterlaat als een lege zak. Wie goed kijkt ziet dat we niet meer zijn dan werktuigen in handen van onze fantasie. Misschien is het niet eens onze eigen fantasie die wij vervullen, maar die van anderen, mensen die wij nooit hebben gekend en nooit zullen kennen. Wij vervullen de fantasie van schimmen"

De joodse mesias

Arnon Grunberg

Fitter, happier.

Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease
Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats
A patient, better driver, a safer car, baby smiling in back seat
Sleeping well, no bad dreams, no paranoia
Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole
Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then
Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall
Favors for favors, fond but not in love
Charity standing orders on Sundays ring road supermarket
No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants
Car wash, also on Sundays, no longer afraid of the dark or mid-day shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish
At a better pace, slower and more calculated, no chance of escape
Now self-employed, concerned, but powerless
An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism
Will not cry in public, less chance of illness, tires that grip in the wet
Shot of baby strapped in back seat, a good memory, still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick
That's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness
Calm fitter, healthier and more productive, a pig in a cage on antibiotics
Radiohead – Fitter Happier