"What Kind of Boot?", asked the Buddha

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
— George Orwell (1903-1950)
Don't Turn Your Back on me Buddha - Another planksip Möbius

Don't Turn Your Back on me Buddha

"What Kind of Boot?", asked the Buddha

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
— George Orwell (1903-1950)

The titled responsion is poking fun at a potential response from the Buddha.

I am evoking a heuristic and stereotype of sorts, one where the Buddha presses for clarification on seemingly irrelevant details. The wisdom of the boot in a violent display of aggression shouldn't matter much, or should it? Should the Buddha get the boot?

Home Grown Möbius

Poetry is a sort of homecoming."
— Paul Celan (1920-1970)

The titled responsion is focusing on the growth and emergent phenomenon that we call poetry.

When humanity turns her back on you, where do you go? Perhaps Paul Celan's most anthologized Death Fugue (Todesfuge) is a homecoming in itself? Conceiving the inconceivable is more than a holocaust, it's the Shoah with the death winds blowing beneath the earth.

Meditate instead!

I felt like poisoning a monk."
— Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

The titled responsion was obviously considered by Eco, the idea of poisoning persisted.

Don't Turn Your Back on me Buddha - Another planksip Möbius

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