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Vasko Popa, Proud Error

Once upon a time there was an error
So ridiculous so minute
No one could have paid attention to it
It couldn’t stand
To see or hear itself
It made up all sorts of nonsense
Just to prove
That it really didn’t exist
It imagined a space
To fit all its proofs in
And time to guard its proofs
And the world to witness them
All that [...]

Franz Kafka, Before The Law

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 [...]

Hell, a prose poem by Peter Johnson

© 1997 by Peter Johnson.
from Pretty Happy! White Pine Press, New York, 1997.
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Hell
“If you want to understand the social and political history of modern man, study hell.” - Thomas Merton
It’s probably like the excitement of your first cigarette, but it lasts forever, that dizzying nausea — the Unknown: with imitation human heads on their [...]

Christopher Spranger, from The Effort to Fall

BUY THIS BOOK.
It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life.
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You say nothing could be further from the truth. I say nothing could be further than truth.
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Sophistry is what reason becomes when it is employed for the purpose of reconciling us to life.
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So much havoc has [...]

Samuel Beckett, from Company

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A voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine.
To one on his back in the dark. This he can tell by the pressure on his hind parts and by how the dark changes when he shuts his eyes and again when he opens them again. Only a small part of what is said [...]