THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.