'Song

All of autumn, rose,
Is this single one of your petals
Falling.
Girl, all of sorrow
Is this single drop
Of your blood.'

--Selected Writings of Juan Ramón Jiménez
tr H R Hays (1957)

When two cultures meet, they can choose to
mix or try to remain separate... It is
instructive to compare New Mexico & Arizona,
Brazil & Argentina, in this light.

Just because you wake up earlier doesn't
give you any sort of moral superiority.
So, neither does intelligence.

It behooves a barbarian to speak in
particulars, to collect shards, and to sleep
uneasy. A barbarian with ambitions beyond
that is himself a shard, a freak, and a
disturbing dream-episode.

Fusion is explosion made conspiracy.

If art is proto-mindscience, we are all
of us mad scientists, for attempting to prove
what we already know, and disdaining results
that contradict it.

Turned up while googling for "theocrat".

Listening to: "Twin Peaks" soundtrack.