You know what today was missing? Some Milosz. I bombed a math quiz today. I mean, actually bombed. As in I think I got a zero. Guess it’s time to go re-read the sections and redo the homework. I wrote a poem recently about how progress is deceptive because it doesn’t feel like progress. It [...]
Things have been fairly ridiculous for the last 10 days. I won’t go into details because they concern some other people that might not want them discussed. That said, things have been fairly ridiculous and I’ve had a hard time focusing on doing schoolwork or anything else. I’m trying not to get overwhelmed by everything. [...]
There was a fragment of Milosz stuck in my head the last 24 hours that I wanted to track down and get out of my system. It was originally printed as an Inscript in Unattainable Earth but I found it reprinted in his New and Collected Poems on pgs. 412-413. What did I really want [...]
This is a Czeslaw Milosz poem that should have found it’s way here a long time ago. It’s called Preparation. Still one more year of preparation. Tomorrow at the latest I’ll start working on a great book In which my century will appear as it really was. The sun will rise over the righteous and [...]
“To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. Not to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness.” – Czeslaw Milosz, Unattainable Earth, Pg. 141 (the last page) “Since my [...]
It seems I just can’t help myself when it comes to this guy. Here’s some of his work from Second Spaces which I believe is the last of his poems that were published. From Part III, Treatise on Theology: 4. I Apologize I apologize, most reverend theologians, for a tone not befitting the purple of [...]
It’s been a nice, leisurely weekend thus far. I’ve been meaning to post more and to post some things that are a bit less technical but I’ve been bad about making the time of late. This is a smattering of things that have been backed up in my head. I realized recently that there’s a [...]
I was watching an interesting video this morning and had some thoughts I jotted down before class. I am reproducing them in their full, unsubstantiated, and provocative/controversial nature here. Later perhaps they will contribute to something a bit more formal. Note: The video features Simon Peyton-Jones talking about programming language evolution somewhat generally. I’d much [...]
This is the last scheduled post I’m going to write. After this, it’s back to the good old days. Everything will be “Just For Fun” and I’ll post what I like when I like. It’s been a good experiment in generating content these past 2^4 weeks but this is the end of it. Though I [...]
I feel compelled to post a translation of last week’s quote from Simone Weil. It’s a gorgeous quote: “The case of true contradictions: God exists, God does not exist. I am absolutely sure that there is a God, in the sense that I am absolutely sure my love is not an illusion. I am absolutely [...]