stopmachine

From life of Pushkin...

Once Petrushevsky broke his watch and sent for Pushkin. Pushkin arrived, had a look at Petrushevsky's watch and put it back on the chair.

'What do you say then, Pushkin old mate?' -- asked Petrushevsky.

'It's a stop-machine' -- said Pushkin.


Daniil Ivanovič Harms

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
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My great-grandfather was a lard-dealer
and today
everyone still knows him
from Henndorf to Thalgau,
Seekirchen to Kästendorf,
and they hear his voice
and move
as one to his table
which was also the Lord's table.
In 1881, in spring,
he decided in favor of life: he planted
a vine along the wall of the house
and summoned the beggars;
Maria, his wife, she with the black ribbon,
gave him another thousand years of life.
He discovered the music of swine
and the fire of bitterness,
he spoke of wind
and of the weddings of the dead.
He wouldn't give a bacon-bit
for my bouts of despair.

T. Bernhard

"What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth."
Thomas Bernhard
Gathering Evidence p. 161

M a j k l P e j l i n
DRVOSJEČINA PJESMA

Drvosječa sam od kalibra, to nek se zna,
Vascjele noći šljemam, danju knjavam ja.
Testerišem danju, pa se ondak dignem,
Popijem šest piva pa piškim gdje stignem.
Petkom idem u nabavku, do obližnjeg grada,
Posle se uparadim kao kakva mlada.
Skakućem na jednoj nozi, crni grudnjak nosim,
I plešem po stolovima stopalima bosim.
U herbarijum slažem cvjeće, leptire i lišće,
Noću sanjam snažnog momka što mi guzu stišće.
Drvosječa sam ja bez mane, davno nemam mame,
Nije zgodno ostavljat kraj mene momke same.
Najveća je želja moja, ko razumije – shvata,
Kad odrastem da budem cura – baš kao moj tata!…