Essence - Essence
'Choose life, Choose living'
Possibly
intended as a parody of the famous speech by the character Renton in the
book Trainspotting by Irving Welsh, especially given the previous
line 'The book, the film, the faithful
depiction'.
Ewan
McGregor delivers the lines in the film version by Danny Boyle:
"Choose
life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a big fucking television.
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electric tin
openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance.
Choose fixed interest mortgage payments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose a three-piece suite and higher purchase a wide range of fucking
fabrics.
Choose D.I.Y. and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning.
Choose sitting in a large couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game
shows stuffing fucking junk food in your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable
home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish fucked-up brats
you've sworn to replace yourself.
Choose your future, choose life.
But why would you want to do a thing like that?
I chose not to choose life.
I chose something else."
'Turn off your mind” and you'll understand'
A
quote from Tomorrow Never Knows, The Beatles’ peon to ego
death, from
Revolver
and based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
"Turn
off your mind, relax and float downstream".
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