It seems to me that space is the same as divinity
entity
he obeys you
And you laughed today, it was only me
a heart in his chest,
Because I see you in the rain, you call me
if it is but they did not speak a word
my watch,
what are you listening to?
† everywhere with a cold sweat, it is shivering
They played wildly, but who’s better
emmi, the oil-free one
phenomenon
Machine-generated (mis)translation of Sappho’s fragment 31
[…] a pronoun (ottis) so ambiguous scholars have never agreed on its precise meaning; a few weeks ago, when I ran Sappho’s fragment through a digital translation, the word in question was reduced merely to “entity.” (The digital translation produced […]
“The consumer conformism — “the suburbanization of the soul” — on the one hand and the gathering ecological and other crises on the other do force the individual to recognize that he or she is all he or she has got. And this sharpens the eye and the imagination. The challenge is for each of us to respond, to remake as much as we can of the world around us, because no one else will do it for us. We have to find a core within us and get to work. Don’t worry about worldly rewards. Just get on with it!”
J. G. Ballard | Rolling Stone, 1987
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