More sightings on the passion front:
City National Bank's billboard on I-880 south, near Oakland International Airport:
Passion Is Currency
(Oh goodie--that must mean I'll get a loan if I breathe hard and lick my lips seductively.)
Bilingual passion on a billboard on Cahuenga Blvd. near Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood:
Hay Pasiones Imposibles a Imitar (Translation: "There are passions that are impossible to imitate.")
The second billboard was advertising Senorial sangría, but the product name was so small I had to stand virtually underneath the billboard to read it. The "pasiones" part, on the other hand, was huge.
The headline on this post comes, of course, from William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming" (1920), which also gave us "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Thanks to Matthew Stibbe for jogging my memory.
Passionate intensity. We are trapped by our desires. Enough, already. The conviction of the rightness of your actions is one of life's most alluring and deceptive snares.
Cultivate doubt. People who are sure they are sure are a must-to-avoid. Be wrong. Monitor results. Take the risk.
In the midst of The Second Coming's first stanza are the best and the worst the result of the death of innocence? Or are the best and the worst each regardless?
Posted by: Vincent | March 28, 2007 at 11:28 AM