Thursday, October 31, 2013

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

a stupid theft thwarting

the two Caucasus men who walked into the Starbucks at the Moscow Europeiski Shopping Center did not look or act at all like they were there for coffee.

one nodded to a third man already inside, and all three were just milling oddly around...
they observed everywhere...for a table at which to sit? unlikely.
was the tall one going to the back for the restroom?... no.

then, just beside the counter in the very center of the shop, at a stool, a Russian fellow sat absorbed in his laptop world.
the smaller thief, by chance a yard from me, lifted the arm strap of the shoulder bag, and was getting ready to walk out. I reached for the arm strap, took it from him, and put it back.
to his surprise and mine.
he then ambled out...

the bigger one spun a small pocket knife in his hands as he looked at me.

no one else even noticed that all this occurred, including the man in his computer world.
(though there was a ceiling camera directly above this.)

closer to impromptu stupid than courageous.

music saves

not in human cathedrals...
nor sublime peaks...
nor lakes districts...
nor "paradisaical" forests...
the communicating gods have retreated into music.
 

Friday, October 25, 2013

so, what's the story?

who in all of human history has lived without any story?
even if it were that there is none.
 

Thursday, October 24, 2013

the play must go on

dreamy marionettes of social traditions' ideas, ways, beliefs, mores, manners, attitudes...
 

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

gnothi seauton: Fukushima

it is not just that men and women of Man overestimated their knowledge and capabilities to manage dangers such as "nuclear energy", but that once a deadly example of their inabilities is shown, like Chernobyl, now like Fukushima, they refuse to take realistic and consistent notice of it, and to thereby learn from it
homo insapiens, again.