We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive. . . and part of the living, … - D. H. Lawrence

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The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set<br>trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

D. H. Lawrence

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive. . . and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Cosmos, Dance, Dancing, Incarnate

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

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In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

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The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set
trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

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