Sunday, 18 March 2007

The Gash (Battle Hymn For The Wounded Mathematician)

'I accidentally touched my head... And noticed that I had been bleeding... For how long I didn't know'

hehe - discovered you can put pictures up on this bad boy.

this is one of my few blogs where i'm not out of my mind on something and the rather splendid ability to hit the keyboard with most of my fingers really is lovely

currently listening to a song from Thunderbox - Steaven Seagal's blues band - this is just odd, not necessarily awful, just wierd

a bit obsessed with Novalis at the moment - dunno why - i came across a quote of his (it's on my facebook profile) in a book by Roberto Callaso (incredible author - anyone who read the greek myths as a kid should read 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony') and really liked it but then started to read a bit about him and i just really like the stuff i've read of his although most of it isn't translated into english. sad face.


'BEFORE all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light, with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant-world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its azure flood; the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning multiform beast inhales it; but more than all, the lordly stranger with the sense-filled eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly form around every earthly substance. Its presence alone reveals the marvelous splendor of the kingdoms of the world.'

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