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finding "non-human dimensions"?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 4:41pm.

Yep, me too.  Its a nice thought that there is something out there that doesn't reflect, or even care about, any of the presuppositions/preoccupations that I normally carry around with me .... something that will give me a new way to look at things, and myself as well. 

Fragments of one of my favorite poems, by Federico Garcia Lorca:

¿Por qué nací entre espejos?
El día me da vueltas.
Y la noche me copia
en todas sus estrellas.

Quiero vivir sin verme.

Líbrame del suplicio
de verme sin toronjas.

Why was I born among mirrors?
The day spins around me
And the night copies
Me in all its stars

I want to live without seeing myself

Free me from the barrenness
Of seeing myself without fruit

 

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