economy of poetry

[stilltrucking]

overwhelmed by the flow of information that washes over me every time I turn on a TV, radio, or computer.

I open another text box
thinking I am going to get a handle on it.
clear consciousness
stare at a flashing cursor

[stilltrucking]

"a pious fraud"
that's me.
"The Philosophy and Deadly Truths"

Supposing truth is a woman—what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have been very inexpert about women? That the gruesome seriousness, the clumsy obtrusiveness with which they have usually approached truth so far have been awkward and very improper methods for winning a woman’s heart?

— Beyond Good and Evil, preface.