'You ought to learn to laugh, my young friends, if
you are hell-bent on remaining pessimists.' --Nietzsche
(1886)

At the Dallas museum i saw a Mochica cast-pot with just
the same expression as Picasso's famous portrait of
Gertrude Stein.

We are inundated with images of unavoidable injury, to
the point that all injury seems unavoidable. (That enter-
tainment accompanies this teaching is entirely beside
the point.)

"I read their expression as if I were reading the ingredients
of a bottle of poison I swallowed by mistake." --Darcey
Steinke, Suicide Blonde (1992)

Listening to: Morton Subotnick, "Silver Apples of the Moon".