Surreal pinhole photography site. Why isn't our poetry as strange as this, & as beautiful?
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Pseudo-etymology: "blogger", from French blagueur, a joker or trickster.
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Nota Bene. The opposite of injustice is not "justice", but reciprocity.
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Why am i obsessed by the art of elephants? Is it that they have not yet been corrupted by art criticism? But my own interest even contributes to this. If i were consistent, i would allow myself to be influenced by them, in silence.
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Friday, April 04, 2003
'Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.'
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
"...What keyhole have we slipped through, what door has shut?
The shadows of the grasses inched round like hands of a clock,
And from our opposite continents we wave and call.
Everything has happened."
Sylvia Plath, "The Babysitters"
'I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.'
Socrates, quoted by Plutarch "On Banishment"
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Everyone has lots of anti-war poems, but here's one that's a palindrome.
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Here's my tanka about "Salam Pax":
Blogger in Iraq
silent a week now--thousands
click on the site, wait,
maybe try refreshing, say:
"Could be the electric's out."
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
"...What keyhole have we slipped through, what door has shut?
The shadows of the grasses inched round like hands of a clock,
And from our opposite continents we wave and call.
Everything has happened."
Sylvia Plath, "The Babysitters"
'I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.'
Socrates, quoted by Plutarch "On Banishment"
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Everyone has lots of anti-war poems, but here's one that's a palindrome.
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Here's my tanka about "Salam Pax":
Blogger in Iraq
silent a week now--thousands
click on the site, wait,
maybe try refreshing, say:
"Could be the electric's out."