Hannah Arendt and remembering thought
After listening to an episode of the On Being podcast, titled Thinking and Friendship in Dark…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat X: flight in green light
X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat IX: servants of Utopias.
IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat VII: at the feet of thin men
VII O thin men of Haddam, why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see…
13 Ways of looking at a bureaucrat VI: through barbaric glass darkly
VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat V: the beauty of the bureaucrat
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of…
13 ways of looking at bureaucrat IV: in unity is death.
A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat III: the craft of the cameo actor
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. Wallace…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat (II): the three-eyed raven
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat: vigilance amidst stillness
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. (Wallace Stevens,…