February 2010
6 posts
Bring in the Gods
Bring in the gods, I say, and he goes out. When he comes back and I know they are with him, I say, Put tables in front of them so they may be seated, and food upon the tables so they may eat. When they have eaten, I ask which of them will question me. Let him hold up his hand, I say. The one on the left raises his hand and I tell him to ask. Where are you now, he says. I stand on top of...
“Poetry is in the details, we usually say, but so is cruelty.”
– Charles Simic
“I say I am not a nihilist, with respect, that is, to lively feeling. You see,...”
– from “Tonio Kröger,” by Thomas Mann
