To most human minds
silence and solitude are vacancy,
not chance for trance sublime and strange
nor
to ponder, each in and on its separate fantasy.
How many human minds long to
render and receive fast influencings,
and hold an unremitting interchange
with the clear universe of things around ?
No clear universe...All is murk befogged and strife
and urbanisation,
no naked Alpine countenance of nature
but deglaciation.
Mont-Blanc:
Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni
I love the taste
of my sleeping-pills,
which is not unlike 100%-cocoa chocolate.
They are also mildly-antidepressant
and free to the poor like me..
To delicious Zolpidem
for the the polynocturia-afflicted
I am happily addicted...
Plus je connais les hommes, mieux j'aime les chiens !
The better I know men, the better I like dogs !
first appeared in print in 1822 in
Reflections of 'A Lady' in the Mirror of the Somme.
It is often misquoted,
or a misquotation is wrongly attributed to
Lamartine, Pascal... even Bismarck, and often to
Madame Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein,
whose best remark/dictum/aphorism/apophthegm is:
Glory is grief sparkling with joy.
« La gloire est le deuil éclatant du bonheur. ».
(And sometimes panicles
of joy are cast out of despair
like sperm from testicles.)
From what I have read
in books and newspapers,
it is often unpleasant
to have a father.
So, fatherless, I count myself lucky.
But this has meant that
I love to see men
and portraits of men
who, in a less imperfect,
less patristic world,
might have been my father.
never were. The legend of the epiphanic kings
grew out of the stories of the Magi (sometimes
numbering twelve)
when Christianity ceased to be
a religion of slaves and the poor,
to become an imperial cult under Constantine
the Great Corrupter.
The Kufic script
is lovelier than Islam.
THE LATIN SCRIPT
is not as ugly as
missionary Christianity;
the Hebrew script
less beautiful than
the non-evangelism
of Judaism.
you are, in fact, worthless.
Capitalism always capitalises,
and reduces us.
*a famous Pepsi-Cola advertisement slogan.
