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  April 2023     11 months ago

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How the Consolations of Philosophy Worked Out in Actual Practice

Plato and Pythagoras
And I, and Wittgenstein, and Locke
Have all been wired together as
Components of the Speaking Clock.

Encased in shields of plexiglass
We drool with philosophic...

by Anthony Haden-Guest

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The Core

I.
What is hard
to follow
often hides lard
or is hollow.

II.
The age of the onion
thought and feeling run thin
the time of technique
the age of the skin.

Lack of a core
one tries to conceal
writers contrive
and critics peel

skins...

by Walter Kaufmann

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added 1 year ago
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