Sunday, September 10, 2023

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He rode in a 1958 Berlinetta.

"The 'Transcendental Deduction,' which is the central section of the Critique of Pure Reason, deals with relations between subject and object in so intricate a way that, though particular insights are perfectly clear, the unintelligible character of the whole seems to stand out as the essential fact." --Karl Jaspers

Life Beyond the Earth (p. 72)--one of my golden books. Where i got HgBr2 from. He has a crater on Mars named after him.

"Dream of Evil

A gong’s brown-golden tones no longer loud--
A lover wakes in chambers growing dimmer,
His cheek near flames that in the window glimmer
Upon the stream flash rigging, mast and shroud.

A monk, a pregnant woman in the crowd;
Guitars are strumming, scarlet dresses shimmer.
In golden gleam the chestnuts shrink and simmer;
The churches’ mournful pomp looms black and proud.

The evil spirit peers from masks of white.
A square grows gloomy, hideous and stark;
Whispers arise on islands in the dark.

Lepers, who rot away perhaps at night,
Read convoluted omens of birdflight.
Siblings eye each other, trembling in the park."

--Georg Trakl, Song of the West (tr R Firmage 1988)

ចិត្តមួយថ្លើមមួយ.

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