Wednesday, January 04, 2006

things

this is from: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/01/02/#sunday

yes, it's early, but i started because it just spoke to me.

btw, you can listen to the writer's almanac, too. but this was just a reading that spoke to me in my head.

and if you think that's silly...well, you're reading the wrong blog. (;

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Things by Fleur Adcock

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
there are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things
than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

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and i have to add this quote; same web page origin.

Umberto Eco (author of The Name of the Rose, a fantastic novel!) wrote, "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

cheers, folks (:

3 comments:

dan said...

Crap! I'm reading the wrong blog again! NOOOOOOOOO!

Maggs said...

where have you been?

jane said...

That quote by Umberto Eco reminds me of something similar to that in the holy vedas: "Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bondages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the true eternal laws of nature."