Tag: existentialism
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January 04, 2010 08:16 AM EST --
It was a bleak December night when we received the late-night call that every parent of a college student dreads.
"Dad," my son said, struggling to present a brave front in the face of the disaster . . .
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January 30, 2007 09:04 AM EST --
Comatose
Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
Yea, I'll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity
Fell it rising, yea next . . .
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January 18, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
Back in the early days of Amazon, someone decided that, while books should be rated on a five-point scale, reviews should be either 'useful?' or 'not useful?'. What a good idea. Something . . .
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December 04, 2009 08:32 PM EST --
Sartre's philosophical analysis of experience as an epistemological phenomenon is a useful starting point for comprehending the disenfranchised, the marginalized and sundry strangers experience of . . .
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February 19, 2006 04:26 PM EST --
Audio.
Lights.
Consciousness.
The woman was standing behind a counter of sorts, talking to someone on the phone. She looked at me and said "Hold on just a moment."
"Are you okay?" . . .
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June 15, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
Man walks into a restaurant and asks: "How do you prepare your chickens?" And the cook responds: "Nothing special really. We just tell them they're gonna die." Bada boom. The human . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
I am a wad*
in an empty box
not unmanageably large
nor damned sized small,
but just a regular size
of wad
This box I'm in
has very dry brown walls, I think,
and smells of corrugated . . .
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August 06, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
Part 1-Camus And Lincoln
A couple of months ago, I was sitting in a cafe on Boulevard du Montparnasse, having a drink before dinner, rereading THE REBEL, half-hoping to be interrupted by some intellectual . . .
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April 14, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
Why do I still breathe?
It appears to me to be
a waste of my time,
another moment in mind
clinging to life by a string,
or by precious oxygen suffering
additional bits of sentience -
it tries - . . .
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May 07, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
When I was a kid, an older friend handed me what he called "The most important book I've ever read." The Stranger , by Albert Camus. Two days later I returned the book. He asked me what . . .
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December 11, 2006 09:20 PM EST --
Have you ever seen a picture, and then, completely shut down?
Or maybe, looked at a certain image, and felt utterly compelled by it?
We’ve all had moments like these. The moments, . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
we discussed
Nothing
for two hours
It was great!
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April 22, 2009 01:34 AM EDT --
One day, my reflection stepped out of the mirror
As I sat unaware reading the newspaper.
He came up from behind. Tiptoed
Like a child. Touching my shoulder.
And it’s difficult greeting your own . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
Sometimes, when I hit rock bottom – and I still do – I think maybe writing about it will give it that attribute they call “redeeming moral value”.
I’m not saying . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:22 PM EST --
Seattle's writer/filmaker Scott Braden has strange insight into the psychology of cats. Brush up on your French, or polish up your reading glasses for this video about the existential angst of . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:25 PM EDT --
Inspired by the painting "3 To Get Ready," the first visual prompt for the group " Writing Inspired By Art Inpired By Writing ."
Sophie stared into the golden micro bubbles in . . .
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August 18, 2006 01:58 AM EDT --
To choose [discern?] my life's direction....I think I need to:
Get to know myself well enough to....
Know what matters to me (most!)....and
*Why* exactly it matters to me....
Then, . . .
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April 17, 2009 10:12 PM EDT --
My study resides on the hills.
I have to climb through the clouds
To reach there. A long walk.
They say there are sages on the hills
Like there are mosquitoes in the swamp.
There must’ve been sages . . .
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September 01, 2007 06:58 AM EDT --
I had an embarrassing moment on the elevator today.
I was standing behind a guy whose napsac-pocket was open, so I commented, “just so you know, your zipper is open”.
He immediately checked . . .
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March 15, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
WHITE ORCHARDS
The seasons have changed again, without my consent.
Do not drop the vase of our silence,
Hands that are mine, this short while.
We must . . .
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