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Tuesday, December 19th, 2000
Holiday Poem
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens, 1921
Bonus Quote...
"People think they're friends because they coincide for a few
hours a week on a sofa, in the movies, sometimes in a bed, or because
they happen to do the same work in an office. When we were young,
in a café, how many times did the illusion of identity with our
companions make us happy. Identity with men and women of whom we
scarcely knew one shape of being, a shape of giving in, a profile.
I remember with timeless clarity the cafes in Buenos Aires where
for several hours we would succeed in getting away from family and
obligations, where we would enter a territory of smoke and confidence
in ourselves and in our friends, where we would accede to something
that comforted us in our precarious state, which promised us a kind
of immortality. And there, twenty years old, we spoke our most lucid
words, we knew all about our deepest emotions, we were like gods
of pint glasses and dry Cuban rum."
Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (from Fragment 78)
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