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Poet, Anarchist, Classicist
"From reading too much,
and sleeping too little,
his brain dried up on him
and he lost his judgment.
- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
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 8:07pm  (1 review) philosophy, rhetoric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aporia
Aporia
I am completely uncertain about how to categorize this. For certain "rhetoric" comes to mind, as it is indeed the only honest category to explain this term. Unfortunately, SU's post-postmodern sense of Ironic Sincerity does not include such a category. The SU category system having been invented through an automatic process at inception, based on a collection of popular search terms in the late 1990's, reflects a cultural paradigm of earlier pre-Web 2.0 users; one whose perspective is obviously not attuned to SU's current userbase. (I note, with a sense of full postmodern irony, that SU's owners and developers are younger than the average users.) So, since most internet users have only a dim perception of the word "rhetoric," usually one in a pejorative sense as in "that's just rhetoric!" implying pure form without any regard to content, we are left with a sense of modernist Angst; that a system of categories exists which does not include one of the principal disciplines of classicism. Should I ask that Rhetoric be more than just a tag and a full fledged category? Is this an imperative? Or should we just allow culture its due? Many questions.
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good night
muchas gracias
- A Journey Round My Skull: Salvador Bartolozzis Pinnochio
- Jul 3, 9:32pm (1 review) arts, illustration, celestial http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com...
helps me find the best stuff
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Cléo de Mérode from this page.
Cléo was famously the mistress of King Leopold of Belgium. The fact that she is wearing gloves here is ironic in light of this scandal.
thank you ceanna for the stunble
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Can you say "desperately trying to stay relevant?"
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- Jul 2, 8:20am
 (3 reviews) poetry http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/ 
A la noche
Noche, fabricadora de embelecos,
loca, imaginativa, quimerista,
que muestras al que en ti su bien conquista
los montes llanos y los mares secos;
habitadora de cerebros huecos,
mecánica, filósofa, alquimista,
encubridora vil, lince sin vista,
espantadiza de tus mismos ecos:
la sombra, el miedo, el mal se te atribuya,
solícita, poeta, enferma, fría,
manos del bravo y pies del fugitivo.
Que vele o duerma, media vida es tuya:
si velo, te lo pago con el día,
y si duermo, no siento lo que vivo.
To the Night
Night, you fabricator of deceptions,
insane, fantastic, and chimerical,
who show those who derive delight from you
the mountains flattened and the seas gone dry;
inhabitor of hollow, empty brains,
mechanic, alchemist, philosopher,
a vile concealer, lynx that cannot see,
you are of your own echoes terrified:
darkness, fear, and evil are your works,
cautious, poetess, infirm and cold,
with ruffian's hands and feet of fugitive.
Whether I sleep or wake, half my life's yours:
if I'm awake, I pay you the next day,
and if I sleep, I sense not what I live.
-- Lope de Vega
- RadicalGraphics.org :: Work :: 11
- Jul 2, 7:55am (80 reviews) graphic-design, arts http://radicalgraphics.org/collection/vi...
 Actually, I did go to work. But this suddenly seemed very appealing, so I pretended to be at home. Odd how people stare at you when you imagine yourself in pyjamas bringing a stuffed toy to your desk. In a little while you start making funny animal shapes with paper clips and Post-Its, then wander over to the coffee maker while yawning and scratching your... never mind. Finally you collapse into your ergonomic chair -- they are called ergonomic for a good reason you realize since they encourage certain postures which do not include 'curled up' with your jacket covering your head. The mail guy comes over with a fax (I still get those?) and tosses it onto a now growing pile. Finally you feel someone nudging you. You turn over and it's your boss arranging your jacket so that you are more comfortable. You smile at him. He smiles back at you. "I need your signature here" He says. You reach for your pen and mindlessly sign it.
It's another week of unemployment but I feel good; I have control of my life. No more faxes to ignore and meetings to attend while pretending to pay attention...what are those guys looking at in that trashbin? Bet you it tastes good... Yes Father, I used to have a job, but I don't think four Hail Mary's will help much...
Telephone.
Florescent lighting feels comforting for a change. There is no pile of faxes, I must have dreamed myself into the 80's. A decade earlier and I would have had a typewriter on my desk. That would have been cool.
- seb
- Jul 1, 9:02am
Intrepid Dreamer Poetry
She stares at the water looking for her heart.
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