calculus tells you
whatever can add up
can also approach zero
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whatever can add up
can also approach zero
of the economist, the theologian
and you'll see
what language does to 'facts',
what 'reality'
is, was, will be
in the to be interpreted past,
future history
then draw graphs and trends,
yea,
and a real asymptote
catching up
with an ever illusive 'reality'
"The value
of
thought
is
measured
by
its distance
from
the continuity
of
the familiar."
-- in Minima Moralia: Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)
a future can no longer be 'calculated'
the state's 'mind is at a loss'
therefrom
an instability of a nation's political order
results
alea iacta est
between Cologne and Munich
an empty seat on my right
was taken up from a distance
by a face
that productively doubled my word output
thanks to him and only him
that he
at the end, closer
and closer towards his destination
had more and more tears in his eyes...
yes, I said, we could go on to Rome...
or anywhere, where ever you want...
read each word
subtract each word
never read
taste thought
at the tip of your tongue
see, language is big,
a big institution
fumbles with you
but your taste
your's is
too much knowing
knowing too much of humanity
will stop you
at the gates of humanity
no thinking here
nor there
inside outside
everybody practices
watches succumbs
to rhetoric
except Cassius,
knower of too much
you meet those who have never lived
like old factories and leftover downtowns
you hear old language that is spoken only in old
oldest books rich with prejudices
you see/hear humans
that you thought
an Enlightenment had "educated"
and if nothing else,
the Second World War
had managed "to improve"
love somewhat
but nothing and nil of that-
history's time has now stopped
reversal and reaction are upon humanity
all what is "modern" sinks and sinks
deeper and deeper
into a sort of "new improved" morass,
a nondescript abyss