The Profound Blinking Piece (And A Word About Blinkism)
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I love to blink. Blinking is fun. I blink, therefore I am. God gave us eyelids with little hairs poking out so we can blink to our heart's content. I would like to share with my fellow blinkers some quotes and information that I have gathered about that most pleasurable of actions. They are so strikingly true and revealing that as you read you will feel the greatest desire to blink. Do not suppress that desire. As Confucius said, "Be not ashamed of blinks and thus make them crimes."
More Confucius
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and blink.
Blinking without thought is labour lost; thought without blinking is perilous.
Forget injuries, never forget to blink.
The people may be made to follow a path of blinking, but they may not be made to understand it.
Blinking is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from blinking.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his blinking.
The cautious seldom blink.
Is blinking a thing remote? I wish to blink, and lo! Blinking is at hand.
Aristotle
In all things of blinking there is something of the marvellous.
To be concious that we are blinking or thinking is to be concious of our own existence.
It is possible to fail in many ways, while to blink is possible only in one way.
Sigmund Freud
America is a blink, a giant blink.
Biblical
And now these three remain; faith, hope and blinking. But the greatest of these is blinking.
-Corinthians 13:13
"You of little blinks," he said, "why do you doubt?"
-Matthew 14:31
Books
The Unbearable Lightness Of Blinking
Lord Of The Blinks
Around TheWorld In Eighty Blinks
How To Make Blinks And Influence People
War And Blinks
A Prayer For Owen Blinky
The Origin Of Blinking
The Voyage Of The Blink
Wuthering Blinks
Films
Casablinka
Blink Hawk Down
It's A Wonderful Blink
The Godblinker, Parts I, II and III
A Beautiful Blink
The Silence of the Blinks
O, Blinker, Where Art Thou
The Blinkblank Redemption
To Kill A Mockingblink
The Accidental Blink
About A Blink
Blinking By Numbers
Roboblink
13 Conversations About One Blink
The Blink's Meow
One Man And His Blink
Mona Lisa's Blink
Manifesto
Blinking is not a boring, inane function as many would have you believe. Each and every one of us is guilty of taking blinking for granted. Breathing is a revered necessity but blinking has always fallen ten paces behind, in it's shadow. But understand this… if we could not blink our eyes would shrivel up and fall out, and then where would we be?
The truth must be told or who knows where it will all lead? Blinking must be acknowledged as a prime requirement of the human body, second to none.
Confucius very wisely recognised the gravity of the problems caused by rampant blinkism, so I shall leave the last word to him...
“He who will not blink will have two agoneyes.”
Louise Jackson has eyes.