Wednesday, 23 March 2011

who shall I say is calling? II




"Be pleased then, you living one,
in your delightfully warmed bed,
before Lethe's ice-cold wave,
will lick your escaping foot."
Goethe


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  1. xtina23 March 2011 at 13:32

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R1k8vHCh0&feature=related

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  2. xtina9 January 2017 at 19:57

    You who live safe
    In your warm houses;
    You who find on returning in the evening
    Hot food and friendly faces:

    Consider if this is a man
    Who works in the mud
    Who knows no peace
    Who fights for a bit of bread
    Who dies because of a yes and because of a no

    Consider if this is a woman,
    Without hair and without name
    Without enough strength to remember
    Vacant eyes and cold womb
    Like a frog in the winter:

    Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
    These words I commend to you:
    Inscribe them on your heart
    When staying at home and going out,

    Going to bed and rising up;
    Repeat them to your children:
    Or may your house fall down,
    Illness bar your way,
    Your loved ones turn away from you

    Primo Levi, If this is a man

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