Saturday, May 19, 2007

Deception Perception Redemption



Was wir wissen?

"...dass der Mensch Etwas sei, das überwunden werden müsse, - dass der Mensch eine Brücke sei und kein Zweck: sich selig preisend ob seines Mittags und Abends, als Weg zu neuen Morgenröthen"


...that Human being is something that needs to be overcome, that it is a bridge and not its own purpose, praising itself sanctimoniously be it afternoons or evenings as a way to the new dawn.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Monday, May 14, 2007

Graduation Ceremony



I have problems with public ceremony. I admit it. Graduation ceremonies seem like one more instance of honoring the endpoint rather than the process.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Elemental Riddle



Carvable element holding fresh precious things,
Oaken pillow, won't burn, lubricates joints and rings
Roundly unsinkable, removed by screw or knife
Keeps things bottled up and protects the sappy life

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Hope? Journal 25. Februar 1915

"Wäre ich ein Fremder, der mich und den Verlauf meines Lebens beobachtet, müßte ich sagen, daß alles in Nutzlosigkeit enden muß, verbraucht in unauf- hörlichem Zweifel, schöpferisch nur in Selbst- quälerei. Als Beteiligter hoffe ich."

"If I were a stranger, who observed myself and the course of my life, I would have to say that everything must end in uselessness, used up in inexorable doubt, creative only in self punishment... (but) as a participant in the process I still hope."

Franz Kafka

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Aging



Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
Hayao Miyazaki

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Early Environmentalist in a Way



From Kafka's Diary - September 25, 1917 -

Weg zum Wald. Zerstört hast du alles, ohne es eigentlich besessen zu haben. Wie willst du es zusammenfügen? Was für Kräfte bleiben nochdem schweifenden Geist zu dieser größten Arbeit.

Path to the trees. You have destroyed everything without ever really having possessed it. How do you intend to bring it back together? What power is left to this restless spirit for such an enormous task?

Saturday, May 05, 2007

In need of (Cordial?) Inspiration



From Kafka's Diary 2. March
"Wer bestätigt mir die Wahrheit oder Wahrscheinlichkeit dessen, daß ich nur infolge meiner literarischen Bestimmung sonst interesselos und infolgedessen herzlos bin."

Who will (is) confirm(ing) the truth or probability that as a reult of my literary nature I am otherwise without interest and therefore heartless."

Not a question- a statement!

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