[Themes] June 2010

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1. there exists a world

2. a constant strain on reason

3. the heavens still keep their secrets

4. there is little gossip among the stars

5. conjuring oneself out of zilch

6. he isn't just something he's imagining

7. the haunting riddle of the self

8. a longing pervades the world

9. the dream picture pinches its own arm

10. we are the riddle no one guesses

11. the fairy-tale trapped in its own image

12. the cobweb of family secrets

13. gloomy anthropoid apes

14. through the mist, above the mist

15. evolution's auto-pilot

16. the universe is viewing itself in wide-angle

17. the flight of the galaxies through space

18. at the end of the secret path

19. more vital than sane

20. wonder cannot be understood from the inside

21. still we are the past together

22. it’s now, or never again

23. a mechanical doll that falls to pieces every night

24. floating in empty space

25. everything is as it was

26. an angel in distress

27. the door out of the fairy-tale stands wide open

28. the world will never return

29. the land where even sleep doesn’t exist

30. it takes only a few seconds to die

All themes this month come from Jostein Gaarder's Maya; specifically, from the "Manifesto" at the end of the book.