“The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it. To write a faultless page, or only a sentence, raises you above becoming and its corruptions. You transcend death by the pursuit of the indestructible in speech….”
- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, tr. Richard Howard. © Arcade Publishing, 1998.
Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor
The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
- You are free and that is why you are lost.
- In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across [...]
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of [...]
The Absent One
This brutal brother but whose word was true, steadfast in the face of sacrifice, diamond and wild boar, ingenious and helpful, held himself in the center of all misunderstandings like a resinous tree in the cold admitting of no alloy. Against the bestiary of lies tormenting him with its goblins and its whirlwinds, [...]
from The Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969-1999 - BUY THE BOOK
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LEDGELIFE
The taller the monument, the more impatient our luggage. Look, look, a graveyard has fancy dirt.
Historians agree: this is the pebble which beaned Goliath.
Every billboard is theoretically as beautiful as what lies unseen behind it.
Mouth: the word’s exit-wound.
It is [...]
