Posts Tagged ‘zeitgeist’
Only a politician could say, with complete earnestness, that he or she agrees with and generally supports the very people he or she has just dispatched armed riot police to attack and disperse by surprise in the middle of the night. Apparently the Occupy Wall Street bases were attempting to provide food and shelter, as [...]
If you had a machine to record the images from your dreams, what do you think it would be like? The machine, the experience of replay, or both? Because we can do that now.
You can pick your leaders, you can choose the crowds you mingle in. And when they laugh and cheer at death, and righteously puff their chests at things that should cause us all shame, you can ask yourself what you are doing with them.
A hundred years ago a clock stopped and its hands show the same hour and minute to the city forever. In the back of a stone house there is a crack in the window and a plaque beneath it reads the hour and minute of the damage. The moment you fall in love. They say [...]
I have not yet learned to sleep through the call to prayer
by Secret Vespers on January 7, 2011 at 7:53 amI have not yet learned how to sleep through the call to prayer. It carries over the rooftops, ten thousand loudspeakers just out of sync, a rondo of monophonic voices that sweeps me into the seventh century. The call is both far and close; it is, like the Southern Cross, a whisper from another time. [...]


