November 4, 2012
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What is the meaning
of life? To find the road that
leads to damnation
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I don’t want your wool,
I don’t want your leather . . . I
want your electrons
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I am sure of one
thing only: bewilderment
is not a problem
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We’ve been mugged by the
nonsense of the Big Bang—an
outworn theory
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Mind becomes God when
we pass beyond the scale of
cloud-crazy humor
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The arrival of
extraterrestrials will
make Jesus look small
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The global warming
Gestapo is the mother
of all slavery
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Tags: haiku, poetry, quantum electrodynamics, quote, solid-state physics
Posted in Freeman Dyson | Comments Off on Freeman Dyson
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]
Tags: haiku, Italian Fascism, poetry, quote
Posted in Ezra Pound | Comments Off on Ezra Pound
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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Tags: haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, torment
Posted in E.M. Cioran | Comments Off on E.M. Cioran
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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Tags: haiku, poetry, politics, quote, racism
Posted in Jesse Helms | Comments Off on Jesse Helms
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
Tags: art, Ecce Homo, Ecce Mono, haiku, poetry
Posted in Cecilia Gimenez | Comments Off on Cecilia Giménez
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
***************
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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Tags: haiku, poetry, politics, quote, United States of Amnesia
Posted in Gore Vidal | Comments Off on Gore Vidal
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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Tags: film, haiku, La Jetée, poetry, quote
Posted in Chris Marker | Comments Off on Chris Marker
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
***************
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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Tags: Blowin' in the Wind, haiku, Music, poetry, quote
Posted in Bob Dylan | Comments Off on Bob Dylan
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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Tags: haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, The Stranger
Posted in Albert Camus | Comments Off on Albert Camus
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
Tags: Eleusinian Mysteries, haiku, poetry, robot, web crawler
Posted in Robot Exclusion Protocol | Comments Off on Robot Exclusion Protocol
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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Tags: Cahiers, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Paul Valéry | Comments Off on Paul Valéry
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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Tags: haiku, poetry, quote, Sexual Personae
Posted in Camille Paglia | Comments Off on Camille Paglia
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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Tags: haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Comments Off on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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
Tags: haiku, Iran, Israel, poetry
Posted in Günter Grass | Comments Off on Günter Grass
April 2, 2012
Elasticity
Equality of
surface, soul of surface; the
raw eye assembles
a focus, a 10-
dimensional forest of
materials. The
gradual rainy
surface becomes a flowchart—
which is the voice of
explosiveness, which
is substituting for an
aspect of silence.
[The 13 song titles of Matthew Shipp’s “Elastic Aspects” via Japanese, Yahoo Babel Fish translator]
http://www.amazon.com/Elastic-Aspects-Matthew-Shipp/dp/B006UFHDCM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1334240992&sr=1-1
Tags: Elastic Aspects, haiku, jazz, Matthew Shipp, poetry
Posted in Matthew Shipp | Comments Off on “Elastic Aspects” Reshaped
March 6, 2012
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Fundamentalist
Republican consciousness:
lizard falsity
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In America
the spirit of mercy is
largely unexplored
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The conservative
mind: no integrity, just
fascism rusted shut
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A psychedelic
warrior is a stone-faced
shaman-poet head
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The grinding fire of
religion will burn the Right
like baptism lightning
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The frontier of world
revolution is a fat
seismograph of love
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The enigma of
Christian cruelty: death will
pay homage to God
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Tags: Acid Test, Cuckoo's Nest, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Ken Kesey | Comments Off on Ken Kesey
The Book of Haiku Revelation 