Linus van Pelt: You know, Charlie Brown, they say we learn more from losing than from winning. Charlie Brown:Then that must make me the smartest person in the world. (Peanuts. A boy called Charlie Brown, 1969)

Linus van Pelt: You know, Charlie Brown, they say we learn more from losing than from winning.
Charlie Brown:Then that must make me the smartest person in the world. (Peanuts. A boy called Charlie Brown, 1969)

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. (Charlie Chaplin)

Lookin’ for some happiness
But there is only loneliness to find
Jump to the left, turn to the right
Lookin’ upstairs, lookin’ behind.

Lookin’ back on the track for a little white (sic) bag,
Got to find just the kind or I’m losin’ my mind.

(Little Green Bag performed by George Baker Selection)

PS Happy Birthday Torsten!


“Calvin: ‘You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.’ Peanut (sic): ‘That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”
(B. Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes. Scientific Progress Goes Boink, 1991)

“Calvin: ‘You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.’

Peanut (sic): ‘That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”

(B. Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes. Scientific Progress Goes Boink, 1991)

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. (I. Kant, Critique of  Practical Reason, 1978)

‘Imagine, Netley: Here were goblets raised to toast the Cat (sic) who killed the moon.’ (A. Moore)


Oh yeah, you’ve got that something
I think you’ll understand
When I say that something
I want to hold your hand.

(Beatles - I want to hold your hands)

Oh yeah, you’ve got that something

I think you’ll understand

When I say that something

I want to hold your hand.

(Beatles - I want to hold your hands)

Psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (dementia paranoids).

Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of the case of Daniel Paul Schreber, 1911

I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.

(Linus Van Pelt - Peanuts)


The delusional formation, which we take to be the pathological product, is in reality an attempt at recovery, a process of reconstruction. (Sigmund Freud)

The delusional formation, which we take to be the pathological product, is in reality an attempt at recovery, a process of reconstruction. (Sigmund Freud)