Month: May 2015
nebulae / look up and down
When you walk through the woods keeping your eyes fixed on the ground, you will doubtless discover many wonderful, miraculous things. But when you suddenly look upwards into the sky, you are overcome by the revelation of another, equally miraculous world. Over the past century the significance of suns, moons, constellations, nebulae, galaxies, and all outer space beyond the terrestrial zone has increasingly entered human consciousness, as it has taken root in my own work and will probably remain there.
Max Ernst.
riches
The great autumnal clouds pour rain
And cool the fever of our Summer pain.
Do great lords gather riches, then,
To ease the suffering of their fellow-men?
Bhartrhari, from the Sanskrit, trans. J Brough.
seeds
“Fare well!”
“A whole world of pain is contained in these words.” How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
Ludwig Wittgenstein p. 52e, 1946.
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