a joke says what it has to say… in too few words… It may even actually say what it has to say by not saying it.
The most fascinating [question]...is whether we do live in a virtual reality all the time anyway, in some sort of virtual ambiguity...
The only time I [felt] I was not caught in a virtual reality is when I travelled on foot.Werner Herzog
Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies. (Certainties are arrived at only on foot).Antonio Porchia
If you should dip your hand in,from ‘At the Fishhouses’ by Elizabeth Bishop
your wrist would ache immediately,
your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn
as if the water were a transmutation of fire
that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame.
If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter,
then briny, then surely burn your tongue.
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
