centre

The Emperor of the Southern Sea was Lickety, the Emperor of the Northern Sea was Split, and the Emperor of the Centre was Chaos. Lickety and Split often met each other in the the land of Chaos, and Chaos treated them very well. Wanting to repay the kindness of Chaos, Lickety and Split said, ‘All people have seven holes for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing. Chaos alone lacks them. Let’s try boring some holes for him.’ So every day they bored one hole, and on the seventh day Chaos died.

Zhangzi, Trans. Victor Mair – taken from ‘Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Grey Grits’ by Bruce Baird.

a pastoral

Ghoul on the beach cont…

patience

Patience, you little--
In the lovely quiet--
It is still much too--
It is still much too--
Still I pass you
But I'll remember the
And with the approach of
I will come and get you, my -

Kurt Schwitters, at the approach of war (Kurt Schwitters: Myself and my aims p.152).

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