"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
"What Kind of Boot?", asked the Buddha
Inspired by George Orwell's (1903-1950) quote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". 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
Inspired by Paul Celan (1920-1970)'s quote, "Poetry is a sort of homecoming." 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 home coming in itself? Conceiving the inconceivable is more than a holocaust, it's the Shoah with the death winds blowing beneath the earth.
Meditate instead!
Inspired by Umberto Eco (1932-2016)'s quote, "I felt like poisoning a monk." The titled responsion was obviously considered by Eco, the idea of poisoning persisted.
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