They wrote their books on a long sheet doubled in folds, which was then enclosed between two boards finely ornamented; the writing was on one side and the other, according to the folds… We found a great number of books in these letters and, since they contained nothing but superstitions and falshoods of the devil, we burned them all, which they took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.
- SEPTIMUS: Geometry, Hobbes assures in the Leviathan, is the only science God has been pleased to bestow on mankind.
- LADY CROOM: And what does he mean by it?
- SEPTIMUS: Mr. Hobbes or God?
- LADY CROOM: I am sure I do not know what either means by it.
- THOMASINA: Oh, pooh to Mr. Hobbes! Mountains are not pyramids and trees are not cones. God must love gunnery and architecture if Euclid is his only geometry. There is another geometry which I am engaged in discovering by trial and error, am I not, Septimus?
- - Tom Stoppard
During the night I witnessed the
mind work
as a highly complex garbage disposal
cabable
of turning trash
into seemingly
interesting thoughts.
In India we call it
prana
In China we call it
chi
In Thailand we call it
lom
In The West we call it
nonsense
Right now
I came to the frightening
conclusion
that we are
dispossessed
of
our physical freedom.
Yikes.
Have you ever picked your nose
of ponderings
about the vast blue ocean
filled with tasty sardines
and realized that
some things are just meant
to be eaten
Imprisoned by jeans:
With my fellow men.
We are dressed with a patient face:
Outside the dressing room.
Trapped in the pants store:
They emerge
and search for justification.
Over and over:
Life repeats itself.
Our hopeless voices:
They became desperate.
Our pathetic bodies:
Limp by the thought of eternity.
