Philosophy in the Morgue
"Method of this work: literary montage. I need say nothing. Only show." --- Walter Benjamin
Friday, January 23, 2009
Winter, 1945
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Down
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Mum and Dad
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
– Philip Larkin
Friday, November 21, 2008
Stillness
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~Source: Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions: "On the Occasion of a Confession" (1845)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Thursday, October 16, 2008
My wife
Nan. A Talese/Doubleday, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The cemetery
Thursday, August 07, 2008
A Man Doesn't Have Time in his Life
Yehuda Amichai
A man doesn't have time in his life
to have time for everything.
He doesn't have seasons enough to have
a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes
Was wrong about that.
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A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment,
to laugh and cry with the same eyes,
with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them,
to make love in war and war in love.
And to hate and forgive and remember and forget,
to arrange and confuse, to eat and to digest
what history
takes years and years to do.
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A man doesn't have time.
When he loses he seeks, when he finds
he forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loves
he begins to forget.
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And his soul is seasoned, his soul
is very professional.
Only his body remains forever
an amateur. It tries and it misses,
gets muddled, doesn't learn a thing,
drunk and blind in its pleasures
and its pains.
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He will die as figs die in autumn,
Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,
the leaves growing dry on the ground,
the bare branches pointing to the place
where there's time for everything.