Docs from Ferdinand ***, tagged "sky"

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:18:05 +0000

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fly

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:24:10 +0000

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sun birds

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:25 +0000

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fresh view

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:14:32 +0000

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fly

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:28:14 +0000

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skyline

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:30:38 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:23:36 +0000

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fly me to the sun

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:03:57 +0000

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everything

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nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:24:47 +0000

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My difficulty

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:44:36 +0000

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My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.

Juno confused her silly tongue

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:02:41 +0000

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Juno confused
her silly tongue, because she often held
that glorious goddess with her endless tales,
till many a hapless Nymph, from Jove's embrace,
had made escape adown a mountain. But
for this, the goddess might have caught them. Thus
the glorious Juno, when she knew her guile;
“Your tongue, so freely wagged at my expense,
shall be of little use; your endless voice,
much shorter than your tongue.” At once the Nymph
was stricken as the goddess had decreed;--
and, ever since, she only mocks the sounds
of others' voices, or, perchance, returns
their final words.

-Ovid, Metamorphoses

The doors of the Muses

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:35:44 +0000

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"And a third kind of possession and madness comes from the Muses. This takes hold upon a gentle and pure soul, arouses it and inspires it to songs and other poetry, and thus by adorning countless deeds of the ancients educates later generations. But he who without the divine madness comes to the doors of the Muses, confident that he will be a good poet by art, meets with no success, and the poetry of the sane man vanishes into nothingness before that of the inspired madmen."

--Plato, Phaedrus

Kala

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:45:10 +0000

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Mists, like evil spirits, shrink and shrivel
Vanish into thin air
The sun pierces them through and through

It lights the recesses of cavelike shrines
Flashes on the brass and copper vessels of bathers in the river
Pure grace

Once the breath goes out, it's fit to burn

Your head
Your turban, artfully arranged, will adorn it
With the beaks of crows
Ah
Your bones will burn like tinder
Your hair will burn like hay
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World
Secular or social interests as distinguished from the religious or spiritual
Nah nah
Here's the cause of it all
It's a house of tricks

Ignore the world

--coil

The eve of the World

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:43:41 +0000

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sehnsucht ist die einzige energie

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:15:23 +0000

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...
ich lebe von der belegschaft meiner zunge
von den expektorationen meiner mutmasslichen seele

lös mich auf wie zucker
wenn du die zeit dafür findest
machs sanft und plötzlich
im handstreich
oder einfach nur mit einem blick
es war alles schon mal da
machs am besten noch während ich tanze
ich tanze
ich tanze
du atmest wie ein funke, ohne körper mitten in mir
sehnsucht ist die einzige energie

English translation:

...
I live off the white coats on my tongue
off the expectorations of my supposed soul

Dissolve me like sugar
if you find the time for it
do it gently and swiftly
by sleight of hand
or simply with a single look
it was all there once before
best you do it while I’m still dancing
still dancing
still dancing
You breathe like a spark incorporeal inside me
Addiction to desire is the only energy

--Einstürzende Neubauten

album: Alles Wieder Offen full lyrics with English translations

An Absurd Reasoning

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:24:50 +0000

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To negate one of the terms of the confrontation that keeps the absurd
alive is to escape from it. To abolish conscious revolt is to elude the
problem. The theme of the permanent revolution is thus carried into
individual experience. Living is to keep the absurd alive. To keep it
alive is above all to face it.

--Albert Camus

electrified

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:55:49 +0000

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fated to die

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:36:21 +0000

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preterm life

From that inert body on which a slap no longer makes a mark, the soul vanished

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:20:44 +0000

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Through the death-like lighting of our destiny, pointlessness becomes visible. No moral rules, no effort whatsoever are á priori justifiable in the face of the gory mathematics that command our human condition.

--Albert Camus

memories

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:50:04 +0000

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We do not remember days; we remember moments.

~Cesare Pavese