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"Peace" (Stanley Moss)

Date December 5, 2008

[image by Ali K.]
The trade of war is over, there are no more battles,but simple murder is still in.The No God, Time, creeps his way, universe after universe, like a great snapping turtleopening its mouth wagging its tongueto look like a worm or leechso deceived hungry fish, every living thingswims in to feed. Quarks [...]

"Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" (Robert Frost)

Date November 16, 2008

The people along the sandAll turn and look one way.They turn their back on the land.They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to passA ship keeps raising its hull;The wetter ground like glassReflects a standing gull
The land may vary more;But wherever the truth may be–The water comes [...]

from The Captive (Marcel Proust)

Date November 16, 2008

“All that we can say is that everything is arranged in this life as though we entered it carrying a burden of obligations contracted in a former life; there is no reason inherent in the conditions of life on this earth that can make us consider ourselves obliged to do good, to be kind and [...]

On the Depths and Mysteries of the Universe

Date November 1, 2008

[photo by jjjohn]
“Look,” he said. “This landscape of clouds and sky. At first glance you might think that the depths are there where where it is darkest; but then you realize that the darkness and softness are only the clouds and that the depths of the universe begin only at the fringes and fjords [...]

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