The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #7

October 24, 2012

Hexagram 7: Shih—The Army

A great ridge: oral
master, grandfather to the
Navy. HIV

insurance is good.
Why blame the water? As it
is said: a saying

is the architect
of law, the teacher of the
day. Losing livestock

is hard. Division
is hard. The spoiled corpse is fierce.
Reactive poultry

is disorder. Bad
is the eldest son; speak not
in announcing this

attack. Lee is the
founding family, a row
of kings under God.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

http://www.humaniverse.net/iching/Tao/Chinese_IChing_index.html

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Ezra Pound

September 30, 2012

MTR

Some of the faces
in the crowd of ghosts; Wet black
branch of the petals

[via Chinese (Traditional)-Japanese-Korean-Thai-Vietnamese, Bing translator]

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E.M. Cioran

September 27, 2012

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Consciousness is a
concession to the boredom
of dead sensation

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Silence: the echo
of ennui, the sudden state
of eternity

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Democracy is
an imposter, the tyrant
as mad dream poet

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Civilization
is always preferable
to the tomb of God

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Paradise is a
distant enemy—a thorn
in my suffering

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The ambition to
sleep is thwarted by the fear
of killing oneself

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To speak in the name
of others is to butcher
sweet indifference

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Jesse Helms

September 4, 2012

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The Democrats are
all wife-swapping lesbians
with socialist kids

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I’m so old-fashioned
I still believe in marriage
and cannibalism

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Conservatism is
a hard choice for people who
don’t smoke cigarettes

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It may surprise you
to know that I advocate
horsewhipping infants

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A Vietnamese
and a Latino: really,
what’s the difference?

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I tried at every
point to seek God’s wisdom, but
He was with Dan Quayle

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Homosexuals,
vodka and abortion: the
fruit of the U.N.

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Cecilia Giménez

August 31, 2012

Boldness, behold man!
The sanctuary of the
artist in a work

voluntarily
miserable—an act that
falls to an inmost

cause, political
considerations of new
idols touched by the

creationists, the
primitive figure of a
movement that combines

the intelligent
intervention of severe
expressionism with

the accuracy
of artistic belonging:
Goya, Munch, Ensor.

[Original Spanish text of the Change.org petition “trinitized” via Spanish-English and Latin-English triple-filtering, Bing and Google translators.]

https://www.change.org/petitions/ayuntamiento-de-borja-zaragoza-mantenimiento-de-la-nueva-versi%C3%B3n-del-ecce-homo-de-borja

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Gore Vidal

August 19, 2012

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There is no human
problem that could not be solved
by litigation

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Every time I drink
I die a little—it’s the
drudge of suicide

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Democracy is
unnatural sex between
consenting adults

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Television is
the highest form of love—a
decadent virtue

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The bacteria
of American Empire
grow in media

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The genius of Bush:
priestly narcissism and an
I.Q. of sixty

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If it were a choice
between Reagan and a birch,
I’d vote for the tree

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Chris Marker

August 1, 2012

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Reality is
a pitfall best imagined
as a memory

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McLuhan betrayed
us; his beauty is borrowed
from backlit eye-time

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It does not belong
to us to show what we see
the way we see it

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The function of a
shot is suspended in a
trace-moment of play

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What is needed: the
lovely fragility of
appropriation

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Avoid the level
of long-ago, but rarely
avoid Gutenberg

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Bob Dylan

July 31, 2012

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America is
a dime store Elvis dying
in a bus station

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Freedom is making
the hideous music of
violent decay

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To be President,
you have to suppress your own
human ambitions

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Poets must carry
the burden of chaos, chained
naked to their dreams

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Democracy has
been crucified by money
and patriotism

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All the truth in this
land adds up to nothing more
than the lies of kings

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I am in limbo,
the pawn of a future of
breathing illusions

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Albert Camus

July 25, 2012

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At thirty, a man
should know himself like the palm
of a martyr’s hand

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A work of art is
a confession from the heart
of a heretic

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The weight of days is
the true university
of the hopeless fool

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Absurdity can
strike any man in the face
like autumn flowers

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Alone, without God,
we are in servitude to
the State, our master

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The adoration
of the police is the sign
of a vulgar mind

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At a certain age,
every man’s responsible
for his slavery

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Robot Exclusion Protocol

July 24, 2012

page cannot be crawled
or displayed due to robots
from robot system

disallow modules
disallow add-on modules
disallow hopper

exclude search results
disallow cache disallow
texts disallow help

disallow starting
points disallow articles
disallow index

disallow stress test
disallow stress disallow
agent disallow

copyright the next
line is a spam bot trap for
the doc tree logs you

should really change this
to something else disallow
all our manual

results all our art
disallow all new pages
disallow all old

user ideas
disallow Latin version
but allow robots

[Via a Wikipedia link on "Eleusinian Mysteries" page]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/robots.txt

 

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Paul Valéry

June 13, 2012

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An oracle of
indifference, God never
finishes His work

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Two dangers threaten
the world: the man of sound mind
and the true madman

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Politeness is the
science of charm, abuse and
total massacre

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At times I think, and
at times I am—I feel like
a calculator

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The history of
literature may be summed
up in a word: war

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Poe is the dancer
of disorder, the fire of
dreams and misfortune

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Businessmen should be
under lock and key; it is
a poet’s judgment

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #6

June 4, 2012

Hexagram 6: Sung—Conflict

Fierce insurance, risk
and health costs are info-snapped
(like Chiang Kai-shek in

Djibouti). Adverse
implications at the first
instance court lines of

contrary water.
The month is long; don’t wing it.
Birds can’t easily

yap the cataract;
they catch three hundred eyes of
justification.

Eat the old German
from Kyrgyzstan. As it is
said: Life is complex.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

http://www.cnd.org/GB/Classics/Philosophers/I_Ching/I_Ching.gb.html#6

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The I Bing: The Book of Exchanges #5

June 3, 2012

Hexagram 5: Hsu—Waiting (Nourishment)

On the day that a
gentleman needs optical
meaning, vigorous

depression is the
center of power. A cloud
of pleasure, the want

of the suburbs, the
mud’s poor evolution, an
uninvited guest—

blood-induced needs of
food and drink are constant. But
no arrhythmias!

The point is not lost
in the cave of the cautious,
unexpected self.

[Original Chinese (auto-detected as Chinese Simplified) via Bing translator]

http://www.cnd.org/GB/Classics/Philosophers/I_Ching/I_Ching.gb.html#5

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Camille Paglia

May 22, 2012

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Madonna is an
imbecile abstraction of
Marie Antoinette

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Picasso is the
mother of patriarchy—
self-love is incest

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The chemistry of
feminism is the science
of the prostitute

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All emotion is
Apollonian—we are
drunk with brain music

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Television is
closer to reality
than is human life

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If you live in rock
and roll, the taxidermist
doesn’t repel you

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Sex is the point of
contact between scholarship
and entertainment

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Nancy Pelosi
is a monstrous stimulus
package of dog lust

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There is no female
Mitt Romney because there is
no female Mozart

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

May 9, 2012

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Women are a sweet
fiction; richer in sin, the
shadow of evil

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The inclination
to die is the rational
path to the convent

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The soul, alas, is
a beautiful illusion
born of wayward shame

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Desire is nobler
than remorse; it enthralls more
than reason abides

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Rare is she who will
concede the enchantment of
happily straying

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Günter Grass

April 26, 2012

There is Something to Say

But why me? Quiet
so far, I thought I would come
out of my garbled

stain, a stain that will
be removed. Israel is
who I am and I

will always be an
extension of this open
declaration of

fact. Why only grow
old now? Enough rest, I say:
Nuclear peace is

the energy of
brittle risk in a world where
tomorrow may be

too late; as Germans
we offer physical crime,
this is the future—

our partnership will
not delete the usual
excuses. I’m sick

of broken silence
and the hypocrisy of
the West; forgive those

who require silence,
renounce the use of force. The
authority of

a free nuclear
capability is the
review of Monday.

[via English-Hebrew-German-English-Arabic, Bing translator]

Sourced via uncredited English translation:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/05/gunter-grass-israel-poem-iran

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