Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)

 

Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)
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These lines were the source of the name of the particular entities known in modern physics as Quarks

 

James Joyce

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Rulers and generals muster their troops. Magnates muster the sums of money which give them power. The fascist dictators muster the irrational human reactions which make it possible for them to attain and maintain their power over the masses. The scientists muster knowledge and means of research. But, thus far, no organization fighting for freedom has ever mustered the biological arsenal where the weapons are to be found for the establishment and the maintenance of human freedom. All precision of our social existence notwithstanding, there is as yet no definition of the word freedom which would be in keeping with natural science. No word is more misused and misunderstood.
To define freedom is the same as to define sexual health. But nobody will openly admit this. The advocacy of personal and social freedom is connected with anxiety and guilt feelings. As if to be free were a sin or at least not quite as it should be. Sex-economy makes this guilt feeling comprehensible: freedom without sexual self-determination is in itself a contradiction. But to be sexual means — according to the prevailing human structure — to be sinful or guilty. There are very few people who experience sexual love without guilt feeling. "Free love" has acquired a degrading meaning: it lost the meaning given it by the old fighters for freedom. In films and in books, to be genital and to be criminal are presented as the same thing.

 

Wilhelm Reich

 

"I have an idea. ... If Ethan and Mark are so similar, we might as well arbitrarily assign them distinct personality traits. I know—Mark, from here on, you're to be called 'Evil Mark.'"

 

Douglas Coupland

 

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?

 

Simon Blackburn

 

My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still would want for more.

 

John Quincy Adams

 

Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one. Me.

 

Don Miller