Gough Medicine-Five Years

"An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate."
To his Coy Mistress-Andrew Marvell

Happy Anniversary to my Beautiful Wife, Lover and Best Friend

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Gough Medicine-Nature

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

Lord Byron

Gough Medicine-Journeys End

'Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream.
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gough Medicine-Dead Ends

"Can't you see a giant walks among you, seeing through your petty lives. Do you think I do these things for real? I do these things just so I survive."

I Spy-Jarvis Cocker

Gough Medicine-communication

"I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake."
D. H. Lawrence

Gough Medicine-American Scream

'The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.'
J. G. Ballard

Gough Medicine-Modern Life is Rubbish

'The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.'

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Gough Medicine-Past

'The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.'

Byron

Gough Medicine-The Artist

'I never got my license to live-they won't give it up, so I stand at the Worlds edge...'

Iggy Pop-Some Weird Sin, 1977

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Gough Medicine-Tyrants Fall

""Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants...and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."
— Mahatma Ghandi

Gough Medicine-Childhood

I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child, For one bright summer day.
~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"

Gough Medicine-School

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman

Gough Medicine-Playgrounds of youth

'And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.'

Homer-The Odyssey, Book xv, Line 434

Beirut on the Mersey - Photo courtesy of Ian Hanslope with thanks -check out his idiosyncratic eye: http://www.ianhanslope.com

Gough Medicine-Endless Possibilities

"I assure your Highnesses that these lands are the most fertile, temperate, level and beautiful countries in the world."
Christopher Columbus

Gough Medicine-Work

'Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.'
Aldous Huxley

Gough Medicine-What happened?

'Remember when we used to go to church on Sunday's,
I lay awake at night, terrified of school on Mondays.
Oh, but it's too late now
I wish I was a child again
I wish I felt secure again.'

David Bowie-Can't Help Thinking About Me