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Vasko Popa, “Before the Game”
January 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | No Comment
Vasko Popa, “Before the Game”

BEFORE THE GAME
Shut one eye then the other
Peek into every corner of yourself
See that there are no nails no thieves
See that there are cuckoo’s eggs
Shut then the other eye
Squat and jump
Jump jump high high
On top of yourself
Fall then with all your weight
Fall for days on end deep deep deep
To the bottom of your abyss
Who [...]

Spine
July 20, 2009 – 10:55 am | 2 Comments
Spine

A man with a backbone
is dangerously exposed.
This explains a shortage.

Hope Fails
March 17, 2009 – 10:48 am | 3 Comments
Hope Fails

4/5 Update: Hope failed to generate much interest for discussion. That’s appropriate.

Hope. Is it a wonderful, positive thing? Or is it an empty self-delusion? What does hope mean to you? What part does hope play in your daily existence? pith… wants to know. Here’s the basic definitions and some pithy quotes as fodder for [...]

Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”
January 13, 2008 – 2:51 pm | No Comment

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 [...]