a response, on another level, to Jeremy Falcon's 'Free or Bust' recent thread here
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I followed Jeremy's thread into a personal labyrinth where I heard ... not the Minotaur's bellow ... but, a Muse's murmuring:
i talk to this stranger in the mirror,
being careful not to trouble him with
comments like: 'my, you do look older,
today, than yesterday:' took years to
get his voice back from stoic silence,
to shy whisper, to hinting bold truthsomewhere between his telling me what
he thinks i need to hear, and lies he
tells to paralyze the ruthless clocks:
the moths of truth hurling themselves
against light's promise of an eternal
story never ended, and never repeatedhe sees me using magic less dangerous
than this magic i use to see him, nowpublished under the CPOPL license (CodeProject Open Poetic License). No entheogenic plants, or kittens, were harmed during the production of this fugue.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I followed Jeremy's thread into a personal labyrinth where I heard ... not the Minotaur's bellow ... but, a Muse's murmuring:
i talk to this stranger in the mirror,
being careful not to trouble him with
comments like: 'my, you do look older,
today, than yesterday:' took years to
get his voice back from stoic silence,
to shy whisper, to hinting bold truthsomewhere between his telling me what
he thinks i need to hear, and lies he
tells to paralyze the ruthless clocks:
the moths of truth hurling themselves
against light's promise of an eternal
story never ended, and never repeatedhe sees me using magic less dangerous
than this magic i use to see him, nowpublished under the CPOPL license (CodeProject Open Poetic License). No entheogenic plants, or kittens, were harmed during the production of this fugue.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Did you write that? That's pretty deep stuff man, and I can totally identify with that on more levels than one.
Jeremy Falcon
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Did you write that? That's pretty deep stuff man, and I can totally identify with that on more levels than one.
Jeremy Falcon
Thanks, Jeremy, I am the half-blind flea on the foot of Poetry that brought back this (undoubtedly mis-translated) rendering of a Muse's perfect song. I have an intuition that you would find a poem by Robert Graves meaningful: "In Broken Images" [^] I have been reading this poem for sixty years, and learning ... or un-learning ... every time I read it. cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Thanks, Jeremy, I am the half-blind flea on the foot of Poetry that brought back this (undoubtedly mis-translated) rendering of a Muse's perfect song. I have an intuition that you would find a poem by Robert Graves meaningful: "In Broken Images" [^] I have been reading this poem for sixty years, and learning ... or un-learning ... every time I read it. cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Then your intuition would be correct sir. I can tell you what I got out of that poem in regards to thinking clearly and by extension intelligence... it's something I deal with constantly being in IT. Sometimes the "smartest" people can have the least in life and suffer from lack of experience. You can't very well experience anything but thinking if all you do is think and nothing else. And since experience is the real teacher in life, one has to beg the question if "intelligence" is really intelligent if the cost of too much of it is to have no experiences. Ironically, whether or not the mind over thinks or under thinks, the result is still being slow in life. Go figure. And like you, I believe wisdom is what remains after you unlearn what's been learned from the status quo.
Jeremy Falcon