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| The Intimate Merton |
Monday August 01, 2022
Intimate Merton.
The story’s in his Storey?
Don’t be so certain.
The damaged glory is found
in the posthumous journals.
Tuesday August 02, 2022
Barth's Wholly Other
methodological tool
methodological tool
turned out to be too
supernatural for his
humanitarian good.
Wednesday August 03, 2022
Primal perfection
is only attainable
on the condition
of Holy possession by
the not so Wholly Other.
Thursday August 04, 2022
The Eroica
is more than just romantic
(indeed, it is that):
the hero with one thousand
faces rears its hidden head.
Friday August 05, 2022
A Life In Conflict
has finally been published
in English for them
to read and to concede what
they did not want to be true.
Saturday August 06, 2022
The Sigma exists
outside the hierarchy.
Alpha and Beta
lack the subtly to be
completely untraceable.
Sunday August 07, 2022
Back to the basics:
begin at the beginning
to the very end.
Less is definitely more,
in life as it is in death.
Monday August 08, 2022
The Dane’s diary
is seductive as ever.
Those who have some skin
in the relational game
would be clueless without it.
Tuesday August 09, 2022
Being kind behind
the scenes of somebody's life
the scenes of somebody's life
that is filled with strife
without expecting one thing
in return ... is hard to find.
Wednesday August 10, 2022
He is kind enough
to understand the subtle
wisdom of these words:
"A friend to all is a friend
to none" (says Aristotle).
Thursday August 11, 2022
As it is above,
so it is below, beneath,
between, and behind.
It's center is everywhere.
It's circumference is nowhere.
Friday August 12, 2022
There is no speaking
of it, nor name nor knowledge
of it ... darkness and
light, error and truth ... it is
none of these ... it is beyond.
Saturday August 13, 2022
Cantor's Paradise:
you are most welcome to it,
if that's your fancy.
But take a good look around
before you decide to stay.
Sunday August 14, 2022
"The Shilling Shocker"
certainly had an impact
on all the members
of the Nobel Prize jury.
But not on Herr Wittgenstein.
Monday August 15, 2022
If and when one goes
beyond the limit that is
formally set for
them, notifications will
be immediately sent.
Tuesday August 16, 2022
It is romantic
to be really understood
by another soul.
It's what is meant by saying
that love looks not with the eyes.
Wednesday August 17, 2022
Logic and ethics
are essentially the same:
they are no more than
duty to oneself, and to
everyone else in your care.
Thursday August 18, 2022
A string of beads by
any other ritual
practice smells as sweet:
"...a completely marvelous
person..." (Merton on Trungpa).
Friday August 19, 2022
Letting your soul stand
cool and composed before one
million and one worlds
is true love's sine qua non:
pure obsessive detachment.
Saturday August 20, 2022
His acquiesce
was won by the purity
of her primal post:
“If we’re not psychotically
disgustingly obsessed with...”
Sunday August 21, 2022
She's taking him down
to the very last city
where the grass is green
... and this girl is the only
one whose more than just pretty.
Monday August 22, 2022
His daily reading
has been reduced to a few
words and sentences.
The desert fathers of old
chose to read themselves instead.
Tuesday August 23, 2022
It’s history-like
but not likely history?
It is more useful
to say that it is measure,
but never what is measured.
Wednesday August 24, 2022
And yes, it's okay,
and he's alright, he'll be the
albatross for one
last night, and for one more day.
It always turns out that way.
Thursday August 25, 2022
When real solitude
is experienced from time
to time he knows that
he was created for it.
It is not a Trappist trap.
Friday August 26, 2022
He once used Rocky
as his nickname during his
athletic tenure
with the white red wings of old.
He should have been the goalie.
Saturday August 27, 2022
And out from the dark
he would fly, wondering if
he would ever make
it home before the sunrise,
riding the midnight express.
Sunday August 28, 2022
Identifying
with wanting to rekindle
their real relation
does not negate this felt need
for his hikikomori.
Monday August 29, 2022
It’s an unconscious
manifestation of his
constant need to rid
himself of everything and
everyone distracting him.
Tuesday August 30, 2022
It's the only time
he gets to express himself
in poetic form.
This may seem too restrictive,
but it's a requirement.
Wednesday August 31, 2022
They tend to engulf
him when he least expects it
(just like the migraines).
These aliens mostly come
out during the night, mostly.
