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Love at First Sight
Love at First Sight
by Wislawa Szymborska
They’re both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Since they’d never met before, they’re sure
that there’d been nothing between them.
But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, hallways -
perhaps they’ve passed each other by a ( Read more... ) -
The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes brings ( Read more... ) -
On being not dead
I suppose it’s a cliché to say you’re glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you’re glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience. One has to know not simply what dying is like, but to know death itself, in all its absoluteness.
After all, there are many ways to die - peacefully, ( Read more... ) -
Oh les français!
In his recent book, “In Praise of Love,” the French philosopher Alain Badiou reminds us that love implies constant risk. There is no safe, everlasting love. The idea that you can lock two people’s love once and for all, and toss the key, is a puerile fantasy. For Mr. Badiou, love is inherently hazardous, always on the brink of failure and above all ( Read more... ) -
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
In his first year at university, Mattia had learned that, among prime numbers, there are some that are even more special. Mathematicians call them twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. Numbers like 11 and 13, like 17 ( Read more... ) -
Sureee
le 9 juillet 2012David, who's the boss of my cubicle neighbour Nic saw my R code running automatically while I sat back and waited for it to run, asked about poaching me for his division. "Well my contract ends mid-Nov. How much are you offering?" I asked. But in the end I think he decided that my sup wouldn't be too happy if he stole me ahaha. I ( Read more... ) -
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We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the ( Read more... ) -
Eternal Inertia
devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end
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水
水というのは不思議なものでございますね。
雨になったり、湯気になったり、氷なったり、雪になったり。
様々の姿になるけれど、本当は、すべて水。
そして、私たちの目には見えずのに、このようから、消えてなくなることはない。
「仁」より
