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"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going."
"I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"I used to look like an American flag."
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"Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'"
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"Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against."
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"For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making."
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"Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bended its form with an imperious gesture to him. It was a woman, hating and loving, that called him with the voice of his hopes. Because no harm could come to it he endowed it with power. He kept near, as if it could be a saver of lives, and an imploring cry went from his mind."
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“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
"Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail. First came the hoisting of the flag."
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"It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled."
"Upon the cornice of the tower a tall staff was fixed. Their eyes were riveted on it. A few minutes after the hour had struck something moved slowly up the staff, and extended itself upon the breeze. It was a black flag. It was with this blot, and not with the beauty, that the two gazers were concerned."
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"It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.”
"The sun has fallen down, and the billboards are all leering, and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles."
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"What can I say to you Old Flag, you are so great in every fold. So linked to mighty deeds of old, so calm, so firm, so still, so true, my heart swells at the very sight of you, Old Flag."
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"Two monks were arguing about the flag waving in the wind. One said, "The flag moves." The other said, "The wind moves." They argued back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch, said: "Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves." The two monks were struck with awe."
"I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags!"
"It resembles the communist Russian flag, except the background is green."
"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it."
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"You're a white flag, throw that towel boy. I'm a jump right in that crowd boy. I don't give a Shhh...keep it down boy and I'm a fuck you blow that loud boy."
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"And we knew the flag was a friend / forgotten ceremony, nailed to the floor, / climbing tooth by tooth."
"Dry fields of lightning rise to receive the observer, the mincing flag. An unendurable age."
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"Ever since I was little I've had a secret attraction to the flag of Finland, secret only because there never seemed to be right moment to go up to someone and say, "Excuse me, I've always loved the flag of Finland. I loved it the first time I saw it, in a dictionary with a colorplate showing Flags of All Nations. Finland's was special. It was free of the symbolism that makes some flags so fussy and editorial. The flag of Finland looked like cool, clean air in a blue sky, the essence of a zero that had just disappeared."
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"How much more easily the leave-taker is loved! For the flame burns more purely for those vanishing in the distance, fueled by the fleeting scrap of material waving from the ship or railway window. Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."
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"i have to make a school flag and i need help with a quote. my flag is gonna have a rainbow. and i wanna put a quote on the flag. what are some great quotes that have the word rainbow in it? reply ASAP!!!!!"
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"The flag is symbol of the nation where a sensible object is posited as an incarnation of an object of thought."
"He raised his hand the way someone might raise a tattered flag. He moved his fingers, each finger, as if his fingers were a flag in flames."
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"Everybody has flags out. Homes, businesses. It's odd: You never see anybody putting out a flag, but by Wednesday morning there they all are. Big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags. A lot of home-owners here have those special angled flag-holders by their front door, the kind whose brace takes four Phillips screws. And thousands of those little hand-held flags-on-a-stick you normally see at parades – some yards have dozens all over as if they'd somehow sprouted overnight. Rural-road people attach the little flags to their mailboxes out by the street. Some cars have them wedged in their grille or duct-taped to the antenna. Some upscale people have actual poles; their flags are at half-mast. More than a few large homes around Franklin Park or out on the east side even have enormous multistory flags hanging gonfalon-style down over their facades. It's a total mystery where people get flags this big or how they got them up there."
"He would think of the Middle East, of strife and mortar, then suddenly of Australia, and then New Zealand, giant squid, tunafish, and then of Japan, all the millions of people in Japan; and he'd get stuck there, on Japan—trying to imagine the life of one Japanese person, unable to, conjuring only an image of wasabi, minty and mounded, against a flag-white background."
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"From a point 10m from the base of a flag pole, its top has an angle of elevation of 50º. From the foot of a tower 20m high, the top of a flagpole has an angle of elevation of 30º. From the top of the tower, it has an angle of depression of 25º. From a certain spot, the top of a flagpole has an angle of elevation of 30º. Move 10m in a straight line towards the flagpole. Now the top has an angle of elevation of 50º."
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"These red flags are the warning signs that a person may be planning suicide."
"I saw our first Confederate flag at 9:35 AM, wrapped around a man's head, as neither a hat nor a bandanna, but more just a thing that hugged his hair."
"What not yet above could not be crushed, this was the fifteenth iteration and would replicate again, though this still not be any new beginning and when it ended it would not end, the houses laced with blue night risen in the toning of the crystalmind, a corridor of small flags each pyramidal and seated with a center made of cream, each hiding where inside them another instance of this lock, the speaking humming through the speakerbodies magicked and lumped with lanterns down the longest corridors."
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"The black flag represents the absence of a flag, and thus stands in opposition to the very notion of nation-states. In that light, the flag can be seen as a rejection of the concept of representation, or the idea that any person or institution can adequately represent a group of individuals."
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"And the ship / The Black Freighter / Runs a flag up its masthead / And a cheer rings the air."
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"In the pirate flag of skull and crossbones, loved by children of all ages and many nations, it is the idea that is paramount, the actual execution of the design often woefully imperfect -- but who cares so long as the wind is up and the flag flutters, bringing the animating force of nature into play. There is another reason for not caring; this pirate flag is also an anti flag -- not merely a sign of belonging to no nation but a refusal of all signs and hence of representation, to, belonging to no nation but a sign of refusal of all signs and hence of representations, too, as nature unfurls its own nation."
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p.s. Hey. ** Hyemin Kim, Hi. Oh, yes, thank you for sending me the video link that I missed at the end of the p.s. on Saturday. It's exquisite! It made me rise about an inch or a million of them in the air! Thank you! I'm glad you like Nisennenmondai a lot. Yeah, they're wonderful and wondrous. I knew about the departmental party 'cos you mentioned your plan to attend. It having been pleasant isn't so bad, all in all, I guess. And you got Indian food! ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you! ** Kier, Hi. Yeah, people in charge of a workplace always seem to want to make peace among employees as easily as possible, even if the peace is just a superfice. I hope she learned something. A phobia of Germans. That's interesting. When I lived in Holland, it was amazing the kind of general phobia of Germans you found there. You had to look for it to know and feel it, but it was weirdly pervasive. No, part of the reason for going to the Larry Clark thing was to get to check out Silencio in the process. But apparently they had most of the club blocked off for the event, so I guess I'll have to go back there. I mostly want to check out the smoking room, which I hear contains a fake forest, which sounds, you know, pretty cool. One of these nights. My weekend was okay. Uh, I started getting back into my writing. Did some post-film stuff in prep for Zac's and my big post-film Skype meeting with our producers today. Did some researching and planning for our trip to Iceland and kind of figured it out, I think. Should be amazing. 12 days there more or less, road trip, I think. I had nachos at Hard Rock Cafe with Kiddiepunk and Oscar B. who are moving to London next week, something that I'm quite sad about. It wasn't a hugely eventful weekend, but it was quite alright. How did Monday treat you? ** Misanthrope, Hey. Oh, I'll eat pretty much any Mexican food, but I guess I do have feelers out for its quality levels. Not so much over here, where you get what you get. I heard that about 'FGF''s horribleness. But it also has a camp of people who think it's a stroke of genus or something. Got to see it sometime. ** Etc etc etc, Hi. Oh, okay, will do on Criss Angel. Is he still on TV regularly, not that that would make much difference to me over here? I've always liked his thing in theory. Like I told Kier, I've never actually been to Silencio. For the first phase of its youngish life, it was very pricey. I think now it's cheap or free or something if you enter after midnight, but I'm an early to bed guy. I do keep watching for interesting events/parties being held there. I hear it's pretty suave. That's most excellent news about the academic journal pub of your DFW article! Let me know when it's pubbed so I can try to get a copy somehow. Very cool, man! I'm going to get back into my novel hardcore this week. Just a few immediately post-filming things to mop up in the next few days, and then I hope to plunge. Yay to you being still drugged on Paris! ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Thanks about the gig. Yeah, I like the new Iceage stuff too, and am very curious about the album, and also to see what the shift in their style has done to their electrifying live show. They're playing here in early December. You can most certainly and yes, please, do a Kevin Drumm Day for the blog. I mean absolutely! I'm a big Drumm fan. Thanks for wanting to do that, man. Someone asked me about what happened to Mike18 by email, like, six months ago. I wasn't sure, so I did a search, and, as of that time, he was still doing some random porn here and there, straight and gay, mostly the former. But I don't know what's happened since then. Almost all of those Russian think porn superstars of years back seem to have totally disappeared except for Ton who has a fetish sex site where he does scat and S&M and stuff. ** Bill, Hi. That Nisennenmodai track is an especially good one, but it does pretty much resemble their other stuff, or their most recent stuff at least, at least somewhat. Gezan is a blast, yeah. There's a very cool live clip of them collaborating with Merzbow that's kind of insane. I haven't heard the new Greg Kelley/Jason Lescallet yet, no, but I will get that asap, for sure. Thanks! Ooh, new piece teasers! I'll get all over them pronto! Everyone, Awesome treat galore here as the great Bill Hsu shares video teasers for a couple of new video/sound works by him. Click these magic links asap. Now, preferably. Here's'Folly (celestial)'. Here's"String Trio", which involves music by Gino Robair. Awesome! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Yeah, nice Shxcxchcxsh track. They're very interesting. Their new album is kind of shift for them towards the melodic, and a very nice shift. 'Creepy dark "hell" room': now you're talking. I get to start my annual Halloween post series very soon, yay (for me). Cool about the offer to screen Art101! Did you enjoy 'Polyester'? I've only heard the new Aphex Twin teaser track once so far, but I have to say that I liked it a whole lot. It felt odd and alive to me, so far. Dying to hear what a full album of new AT is like. Yeah, I read about that poll on independence. And about the Cameron government's scramble to create perks for Scotland so you'll want to stay 'in the family'. Super fascinating. ** Steevee, Cool about the Rustie intersection. ** Mark Gluth, Hi, Mark! Yeah, it's weird how forty matters. I guess 'cos it has this vibe of being the middle of your life? Or I guess when you're 40, you're really 'an adult'. You can still sort of see yourself as a young guy in your 30s. I saw your fundraiser. I'll kick something in, of course, and I'm happy to pass that along. Everyone, the mighty scribe Mark Gluth, author of the LHotB classic 'The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis', has a new novel forthcoming soon from Ken Baumann's Sator Press, and he's doing a Indiegogo to raise some dough to fund a small promo/reading tour, and if you can help him out by clicking this and forking out a bit of money, you'll not only occasion a lovely thing but you'll also get some sweet perks for doing so. Go over there and see what's what and help him out, please? Yes, sending me stuff to cull for the post sounds great! I'm very excited! Thanks, M. ** Nicki, Hi, Nicki. Thanks about the gig and for your congrats on the successful filming. Oh, I'll go see what this novel you like so much is all about. Everyone, here's d.l. Nicki: 'I'm just popping in to plug a new novel as I'm half-way through and it is blowing my mind. It is, quite simply, amazing (even though the title put me off initially): Confessions of a Terrorist.' ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! Oh, yum, sigh, about your month in Tokyo. I so miss it. Fantastic news about the new TamTam book! I'm excited to read it, and, you know, if you'd like to use a blog post as a birth announcement and preview, I would be very more than happy. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Thanks for listening to the gig and find some faves, man. I've only heard that one deliberately leaked Aphex Twin track, unless there are more previewing tracks out there, but I really like it. Yeah, way excited for that album. I mean, yikes, crazy. 'The Sam Pink of the music world': wow, ha ha. I can sort of wrap my mind around that. Ha ha, that's a good one. I saw that about Darby Larson tweeting his novel line by line. Very cool. Love his novel, of course. Let me ... Everyone, one of my very favorite recent novels is Darby Larson's 'Irritant', and Mr. Larson has set up a Twitter thing that is going to robotically tweet the entire novel line by line, one line per hour, until the novel is entirely tweeted, which Mr. L estimates will take three years. It's a great novel, and this is certainly a novel way to read it, if you haven't. It's all happening here. Thanks a bunch, Chris. Take care! ** Sypha, Hi, James. So, Tom Clancy's big gift is his plotting, right? I think I read that his plotting was especially good or tight or twisty or something? Cool that you're getting the sublime 'Two Serious Ladies' under your belt. Ernst Haeckel: no, I've never heard of him, I don't think, but I'll do a google catch up on his stuff today. Thanks a lot for the tip! ** And we are done. The Flags post sort of does what it does, and I don't know what else to say about it, but I hope you like it to some degree and in some fashion. See you tomorrow.