you were one of the best female poets and I told the publishers, editors, “ Her, print her, she’s mad but she’s magic, there’s no lie in her fire.” I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a cigarette and listened to you piss in the bathroom, but that didn’t happen.
- Charles Bukowski, from An Almost Made Up Poem
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Magritte's This is Not a Pipe.
Magritte's point: This is not a pipe, this is a picture of a pipe. Can you stuff it? It is just a representation. If it was written "This is a Pipe", it would be a lie.
This would make a wonderful tattoo. We are hardly who or what people think we are. What they see, is merely a re-presentation.
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