Tag: philosophy
group name: criticscorner
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May 13, 2006 05:55 PM EDT --
Seasons
Each one traverses
this path only once
I too must, but
for my own reasons
I carry on my shoulders
a bagful of seasons
When hunger calls
I pause, take one out
and put it in my mouth
Candy floss . . . more
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July 03, 2006 11:53 PM EDT --
Introduction to Poststructural Preemptive Self-Nihilism On Gather
~ Will Evans
Audio: Laurie Anderson "Language Is A Virus"
"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the . . . more
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September 02, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
a ref=youth
+western NJ.cornfields
image
the labyrinthine fields,
gently undulating to
the wind's zither,
like a Baptist congregation,
swaying to hymns;
the . . . more
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June 17, 2006 07:41 AM EDT --
Ever since I was a child growing up in a country of Spanish traditions, the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha was very much a part of my literate world. Of course, the book, written by Don Miguel de Cervantes . . . more
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August 21, 2007 09:16 PM EDT --
I picked up this book because I had read Coelho's book, The Alchemist. I very much enjoyed The Alchemist which was stunning for its simplicity. It is a fable which convinces the reader . . . more
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January 02, 2007 12:31 PM EST --
Getting into a new year always brings in us the unavoidable human need to take stock of what has been and what will be; what we were and what we will become. Is it possible, we ask, that the three hundred . . . more
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January 20, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
My Turkish friend, Ulak, drove from San Diego to visit me. He drove with the soft marine winds at his back, drove a day, a night, through the Mojave, past the City of Sin, into the sand art plains of Arizona, . . . more
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June 27, 2006 09:38 PM EDT --
Star lit moon, a slip of meaning
sinking into the western skies
ancient runes and mystic gleenings
testing the waters, dotting the "I"s
it's not that I have the answers
or the questions
or . . . more
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June 21, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
I am a wad*
in an empty box
not unmanageably large
nor damned sized small,
but just a regular size
of wad
This box I'm in
has very dry brown walls, I think,
and smells of corrugated . . . more
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September 26, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
[This seems to be another in an unintended series about time. I don't know. Perhaps it is fascination with the subject, or perhaps it is desperation at being temporarily unable to come . . . more
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February 19, 2007 04:53 AM EST --
I had bought the corn cob pipe as well as the raisin and honey flavoured tobacco just as the old man had requested.
After traveling through the picturesque Cavalho vineyards, I had eventually come to . . . more
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April 05, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
I teach beginner guitar at my boys' school two mornings a week. Most weeks I let the students decide which songs to learn. They pick music that would make most instructors flinch - thick brassy chords . . . more
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January 15, 2007 08:09 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . . more
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November 29, 2006 10:16 AM EST --
“A tree is a tree. Yes, of course.”
Roland Barthes, “Mythologies”
Barthes’s assertion seems intuitive enough. It is an expression of logical self-identity, and . . . more
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March 13, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
Note to all Mexicans and Hispanics. I regard you as friends and would never attempt to mock you. However to tell this story I felt it was necessary to hear the words of the father...in contrast to the . . . more
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March 17, 2008 12:19 AM EDT --
Right On, Pastor Wright
Put down with disdain
for exposing real pain
of folks whose God-given power's
crushed by evil glowers
of corrupt so-called warriors
exulting what's destroying . . . more
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June 14, 2006 02:07 PM EDT --
Mind journey to the edge,
a precipice of dialogue,
where cosmics' pallet goes un-pressed,
symbols dissolve,
in the shadows of stars uncast.
Illusions release from boned compress,
dream . . . more
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February 12, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
Life seems so small, just staring at this wall
Of dancing shadows of shifting gray.
The day gets so dull, doing nothing at all,
But standing still staring one way.
These chains around me seem old,
Their . . . more
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March 28, 2007 10:16 PM EDT --
Titus Burckhardt, whether fixing his attention on the proper philosophy, or the proper architecture, or the proper occultism, brings a liberal yet formiddable intelligence to whichever of these works he . . . more
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June 28, 2006 05:46 AM EDT --
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who . . . more
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