21 December 2014

 James Burnham's Ten Laws

  1. Everybody knows everything.
  2. Who says A must say B.
  3. Just as good, isn't.
  4. You cannot invest in retrospect.
  5. Wherever there is prohibition there's a bootlegger.
  6. In every project there's a Schlamm.
  7. You can't divorce yourself.
  8. Every member must pay his dues.
  9. No excuse, sir.
  10. If there's no alternative, there's no problem.

08 December 2014




"We suffer from a repression of the sublime."

—  Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis




But Van the Man never does.




Lines for Winter

Mark Strand

Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself--
inside the dome of dark 
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play 
as you keep going.  And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.