Comments on: compassion http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=1497 art, life, philosophy, architecture, literature, film, performance, and other stuff Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Cal Godot http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=1497#comment-1204 Cal Godot Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:10:13 +0000 http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=1497#comment-1204 I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind. --from "The Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robert Bly I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in those darknesses,
of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
on the timid globe of an orange.

I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

–from “The Enigmas” by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robert Bly

]]> By: Melinda http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=1497#comment-1187 Melinda Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:25:42 +0000 http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=1497#comment-1187 I've always felt that, no matter what I'm interested in, no matter what I do: somewhere, somehow, the end-result of all my efforts must have a positive effect on the immense suffering going on outside myself. Not much else matters. I’ve always felt that, no matter what I’m interested in, no matter what I do: somewhere, somehow, the end-result of all my efforts must have a positive effect on the immense suffering going on outside myself. Not much else matters.

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