Wednesday
May042011
songlines
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Namaste,
"Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer." -Martin Heidegger, 'Language'
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"Have you seen the Indians?" asked the son of the Emir of Adrar.
"I have."
"Is it a village or what?"
"No," I said. "It is one of the greatest countries in the world."
"Tiens! I always thought it was a village."
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"Useless to ask a wandering man
Advice on the construction of a house.
The work will never come to completion."
Metta.
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