Archive for November, 2009
Ah-hah! The List is the origin of culture
Der Spiegel interview with Umberto Eco
Nota bene: “If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.”
The Coming of the Ship
“Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. » Continue reading “The Coming of the Ship”
Fill the Cup
XX.“Ah, my Belovéd, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears–
To-morrow? – Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n Thousands Years.
XXI.
“Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to Rest.
XXIX.
“Into this Universe, and why, not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
XXXIV.
“Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur’d–’While you live
Drink! for once dead you never shall return.’”
- Omar Khayyam
