February 2012
To the Reader by Charles Baudelaire
Folly, depravity, greed, mortal sin
Invade out souls and rack our flesh; we feed
Our gentle guilt, gracious regrets, that breed
Like vermin glutting on foul beggars’ skin.
Our sins are stubborn; our repentance, faint.
We take a handsome price for our confession;
Happy once more to wallow in transgression,
Thinking vile tears will cleanse us of all taint.
On evil’s cushion...
Lethe →
rediscovering Baudelaire. oh, how many translations there are! and all so different. must now learn french.
“When I asked for all things, so that I might enjoy life, I was given life, so...”
– Unknown
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,...”
– Lin Yutang
January 2012
“People know where to mine silver
and know how to refine gold.
They know where...”
– Job 28:1-22, the Bible
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