BEFORE THE LAW stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment. The man thinks it over and then asks if he will be allowed in later. “It is possible,” says [...]
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She poked her husband a second time: “Wake UP.”
“I’m not sleeping. I am extending my dream.”
“Oh, I see. So the snoring was its soundtrack?”
First law of paranoia:
You can never be too paranoid.
I think this place is full of spies. I think they’re onto me.
Didn’t anybody, didn’t anybody tell you, didn’t anybody tell you
how to disappear gracefully from a room? http://blip.fm/~92ff1
- The National, “Secret Meeting”
Poetry, pfft. No gift. More of a curse today.
In the dark, in a trance,
in a stance like and so
beside daddy. The next farmer,
his eyes pulled like harrows
to the end of the plain.
His speech was a compendium of colloquial talk picked up from life’s travels. He spoke like an over educated anglophile ghetto cracker.
Attention alters intention.
So much potential, they said, since childhood. She believed them. She believed herself. Later, diagnosed with unmediated humanity, she died.
In reality or in aspiration. They’re there.
Always an audience, always a challenge.
Put all effort into output. None to outcome.
Popularity. Merit.
In America, never the twain shall meet.
Or, maybe, Mark Twain was our last exception.
While listening to BBC news coverage of Iran on the radio this morning, the words “Revolution speeds evolution” came to my head. At the time, the words fit the current Iran situation very well and time will tell whether there is a revolution, a new election, or crushed hopes and lives. Since it rang in [...]
