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And I would imagine Shakespeare and Mozart and Albert Einstein were also very strange. I think it must be very hard to have a cognitive process that really only in some ways resembles the cognitive processes of most of your fellow human beings. And the ability to see things that no one else can see, on one level, is a blessing — it’s certainly a blessing for the rest of us when something is made of it — but it also must be a kind of curse, because it seals you up in a world that only you can see.
Inception Series Alisdair Miller
What it must be like to be an angel
or a squirrel, we can imagine sooner.The last time we go to bed good,
they are there, lying about darkness.They dandle us once too often,
these friends who become our enemies.Suddenly one day, their juniors
are as old as we yearn to be.They get…
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Fred Eerdekens - Life itself is not enough. Clothing, glass, steel, light projectors, 700 x 120 x 90cm (1999)
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Fred Eerdekens - Life itself is not enough. Clothing, glass, steel, light projectors, 700 x 120 x 90cm (1999)
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ominous
we are flammable creatures
blazing in night-sky dark space
bereft of kindness
waking in the puddle of our overflows
we break our own levees
in near-occasions of sin
struggling with the native logic
that aligns our floating homes
we are hidden monsters
freaks of nature running trains
naively-courageous
prone to death in every possible way
