Friday, June 25, 2010

language circles the globe and which we will never speak

mornin'


 It is 2:56 am and this poem  seeded my  ad infinitum  foresight




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FRIDAY

Jun. 25, 2010

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor












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The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight


The world's an untranslatable language
;without words or parts of speech.
It's a language of objects
Our tongues can't master,
;but which we are the ardent subjects of.
If tree is tree in English,
albero in Italian,
That's as close as we can come
To divinity, the language that circles the earth
and which we'll never speak.

Pass it on

Peter

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