Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Thursday, May 24, 2018
dubrovnik
City of cats, spackled by shells
firing the red roof-tiles black
chalk outlines the corpse of a city
risen again, swathed in stone and moated
scene of dragon battles staged
where tourists climb the sides of churches
children hang off bas relief fountains
and swarm, ride scooters through squares
dripping sweat and screaming for pasta;
synth sing-a-long at church, jeans
and bad haircuts, long dresses
cross the chest and shuffle behind pews.
Quiet in a vertical garden, sloping
down to the sea where cactus bulwarks
fortress the cliff against the waves
flecked in cinders, they pixelate a peace
that spreads across the Adriatic’s
azure solace, Croatia
maintains, embraced by octopus
split by former comrades, edge that
boomerangs Westward to Europe.
Friday, March 8, 2013
von der oberseite des reichstag
In ihrem gemeinsamen Mund
lebt ein "Kolibri"!
Mit jedem seiner Flügelschläge
dafür das Auge viel zu träge
Kulturen erblühen und vergehen
ganze Kontinente untergehen
Hier gibt es keine harmlosen Worte
alle viel zu gross . . . .
Wärend nur eines Augenaufschlags
haben sie geputscht!
die Regierung gestürzt
Parlament aufgelöst
haben Wahlen abgehalten
das Ergebnis annulliert
haben Wahlen wiederholt
sind letztendlich exiliert
von Geschichte ausradiert
Ich durch den Dreck bedeutender
Metaphern
Meta, Meta. Meta für Meter
mit Gesten viel zu breit
für die Imterimsliebenden
~ Blixa Bargeld, 1992
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
boring on hara-kiri
At this point the unpopular teleological argument usually slips in to increase assurance about the thermal insensitivity of the intestines. The esophagus and stomach can easily be stimulated thermally and might therefore be endowed with means for thermal perception; but why should the intestines have thermal receptors, when from birth to death they meet with almost no thermal change except from enemas, surgery, accidents or conceivably hara-kiri?
E. G. Boring (1942) Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, remarking on the lack of adequate experimental investigation of the ability of the intestine to sense heat.
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