December 2009
15 posts
“To be beautiful means no more than clearly to express an idea”
– Schopenhauer
“To fight with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior,...”
– Seneca
The dark horse rides across the sun, where, in the shadows, the bear sleeps. Unhallowed venture burns as these vessels fail to fathom, the deep to deep.
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. He who looks...”
– CG Jung
Consecration
Time flees. As I stare at the ring. Is it time to enter? Blood and fire, does fear keep me away?
A newly hallowed land, and people not afraid, to die, to love.
“Wisdom went forth to dwell among the sons of men, but she obtained not a...”
– Enoch
Seeing Triple (revised)
Mad as a hat only, half, I marry her and place upon my head, a double twined thread. Snap. Return to pure reason followed by double-blink, screen-flicker, impending-death-scene. These pawns on the Schachboard of the gods, now with special FX.
Toward our reflection
We cannot take truth
unalloyed.
Weighted
with so many golden instruments,
catechisms,
is the only way
we fly.
“Clausewitz had a stunning intuition about history’s suddenly accelerated...”
– Rene Girard, Achver Clausewitz
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still
thinks, every so often, that under
the...”
– Neal Stephenson, via Interesting Times
Movement
Ideas are not enough for me. Cast me in with the tinkers, the makers, the creators of things. Revel in all their dented, half-functional glory! For it is only through action that this world will change.
By making, by trying, we move–we learn what works and what does not. On this kinetic path lies the world we make and remake daily, never satisfied, always moving.
from gokubi.com
“This Enoch, whose flesh was turned to flame, his veins to fire, his eye-lashes...”
– Gershom G. Scholem