In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
~Somerset Maugham
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
~ Joseph Conrad
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
~Catherine O'Hara
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~Vincent Van Gogh
Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
~Lord Byron, Childe Harold
By night, an atheist half believes in God.
~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
~Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
For the night shows stars and women in a better light.
~Lord Byron, Don Juan
For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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Welcome to my life on the cusp of 24 years on Planet Jamaica... crime and violence is at an all time high, people die, people live, people pray. If you're lucky, you're probable one of the few who has wholesome and exhaustive and even languid sex in the siesta hours of 1:30pm-4pm go to the beach at dusk bask in the dimming orange light of polluted skies and then head to some quaint old bar to wash your mind with whisky or vodka... and then retire to more sex and drugs. I however have not been this fortunate...
I spend my days in the nexus realm of ideas potential possibility insecurity and some semblance of poverty... But its the NIGHTS the goddamn nights that screw me over. I take to the streets of the community known as Paradise Acres most nights, in a dire depraved and desperate search for adventure, anything to escape the lack of the female companionship, the achilles heel of male kind.
This unique blog is Jamaica's very first blog. It documents the work and thoughts of Jamaican Philpsopher, Yannick Nesta Pessoa. I am an Artist, Graphic Designer, Copywriter, Poet, Social Advocate, Community Activist, Western Mirror Columnist and Legal Student. Follow on Twitter & Instagram @yahnyk. Follow on Youtube @ and Reply to yannickpessoa@gmail.com
10 comments:
Well there are some hot girls in Mobay, why don't you try one of us? I'm sure your gf won't mind.
das interesting. i just up an old painting by the name of 'night fever'... i'll take a pic and send it to you.
ras mike
i just dug up an old painting...
that's really what i meant.
grammar-obsessed mike
hmmm Yannick... Paradise Acres? Ent that de fare-picking district? Wha u doing down dey hun? Tings so brown fuh real???
thats right thats right...its excellent u eh have no woman to meet..go find some adventure fa real..get a hobbie or sumtin (like jerkin off) but dont succumb to the male hornin gene Khafi
Hmmm, Yannick, i see your blog has solicited some hot girls...Maybe life isn't so bad after all :).
This is so damn hard to believe!So, do tell Yanick: Is this by choice or what because I can't seem to fathom this situation of yours. Are you afraid to catch some uncurable disease, being cheated on, rejected or did you experienced some dreadful hurt in the past that you can't seem to move past? Just curious & I'd really like if you could spare some time to answer these questions? Thanks
AAAAAAAh Ms. Anonymous or Mister Anonymous wid the questions if you leave yuh name and mek the question dem likkle more specific mi wi see wah mi can do fi answer dem.
Ok, Mi really no see how much more specfic yu need mi 2 be but mi ago try nonetheless!
There are so many girls bout the place. O.k I see if you don't wanna have one night stands because after a while it leaves one empty inside - having no one special to cling to on lonely nights & all because it's just another girl.That's one scenario and the others are pretty straight forward. Have you been so hurt in the past that your mind has rejected the possibility of a relationship? Are you fearful of all the diseases being passed around because of all the unprotected sex, girls prostituting
their bodies and plus the big trust factor- of having someone who is not honest about her past & even her present sex life! I do understand the many complications and intricate details involved but at the same time ppl. has to take chances inorder to live life to its fullest. Life in itself is a risky business so what the heck, we have to live NOT JUST EXIST. I may not have it down pat(maybe none of these fit your reason for having restless & lonely nights) so go right ahead & explain your reasons. Can't wait!
lol dude your funny, i kno its strange to say that since your beein all deep and I who have no hope of reaching any where near as profound of you and your frens to say, but keep on doin what your doin.
first yr dude
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