Hughlings Himwich

Imagine!

Reality is more fluid and elusive than reason, and has, as it were, more dimensions than are known even to the latest geometry.  --George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty

What is left?

"Wer will was Lebendigs erkennen und beschreiben
 Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben,  
Dann hat er die Teile in seiner Hand,  
Fehlt, leider! nur das geistige Band."                          (Goethe, Faust I) 

Number 20 from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind"

The pennycandystore beyond the El

is where I first

                       fell in love

                                        with unreality

Jellybeans flowed in the semi-gloom

of that September afternoon

A cat upon the counter moved among

                                        the licorice sticks

                        and tootsie rolls

          and Oh Boy Gum

 
Outside the leaves were falling as they died

A wind had blown away the sun

A girl ran in

Her hair was rainy

Her breasts were breathless in the little room

 
Outside the leaves were falling

                                  and they cried

                                                        Too soon! too soon!

Soft as the massacre of Suns by Emily Dickinson

Soft as the massacre of Suns
By Evening's sabres slain. 

from "Black Riders and Other Lines" by Stephen Crane

In the desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

who, squatting upon the ground,

Held his heart in his hands,

And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"

"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;

"But I like it

Because it is bitter,

And because it is my heart."

Chris McCandless. by Jay-James May

Chris McCandless. by Jay-James May

Everything
About Icarus
Is
A lie.

He never
Flew too high
Burning
His wings.

He
Died in the
Back of a bus
Alone and smiling.

He smiled
And his teeth were yellow.
He laughed
And we all laughed too.