Hatching from a nameless gleam of light I see
Monstrous flowers and frightening roses
I feel that out of duty I write all these things
That seem, on the lurid, trembling parchment,
To issue sinisterly from the shadow of my hand.
Is it by chance, great senseless breath
Of the Prophets, that you perturb my thoughts?
So where am I being drawn in this nocturnal azure?
Is it sky I see? Am I in command?
Darkness, am I fleeing? Or am I in pursuit?
Everything gives way. At times I do not know if I am
The proud horseman or the fierce horse;
I have the scepter in my hand and the bit in my mouth.
Open up and let me pass, abysses, blue gulf,
Black gulf! Be silent, thunder! God, where are you leading me?
I am the will, but I am the delirium.
Oh, flight into the infinite! Vainly I sometimes say,
Like Jesus calling out "Lamma Sabacthani,"
Is the way still long? Is it finished,
Lord? Will you soon let me sleep?
The Spirit does what it will. I feel the gusting breath
That Elisha felt, that lifted him;
And in the night I hear someone commanding me to go!

From 'Le bien germe parfois...' (Good Sometimes Germinates...),
from the collection Toute la lyre, first published 1888.

VICTOR HUGO

rparker was asking for citations to the quotes you left in the kafka post.

i would be interested too in reading further.

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us...We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of
someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."


wow. thanks

your art....

think the tree must be on fire or something...i mean i just keep sitting there...bassdaddy said you are in art school...is that correct? its unbelieveable how much your beelee picture actually looks like him...most people cant get it right...but you are dead on!!

i love your paintings!!!
beautiful

very nice art work

still waitin for my cards to show up... its all like the pot that never boils and stuff... and still i look and look... have good holidayness

the story of your cards. i found mine (the ones of the avatar) this summer near a pristine field where I walk near my apartment. i had never seen such tiny cards. it was so funny i was walking to SIYL and poof...the slanted zero/arrow cards.

i find the "message" funny, too. the empty set means "skip" and the next card is "reverse" - so they form a loop, a circle...neverending...

you must tell more about the cards you found!

happy holidays....