-The Fool is numbered zero in most Tarot packs.
-The Fool agrees with Jung that the I Ching works, but doesn't understand why.
-The Fool grasps a doorhandle and thinks of Sartre.
-The Fool hears Billy Holiday sing, then listens to the Gods weep.
-The Fool cherishes Abhinavagupta's dictum that God is 'unobjectified desire'.
-The Fool sees a flock of geese, then remembers the death of Sibelius.
-The Fool loves conspiracy theories.
-The Fool sees a light at the top of the hill, then watches for an on-coming truck.
-The Fool admires the cunning of Themistocles at Salamis.
-The Fool heard the Shiva Sutras were discovered carved into a Himalayan rock.
-The Fool thinks consciousness a function of an evolving universe.
-The Fool thinks criticism should be constructive, not gratuitous.
-The Fool detests hypocrisy.
-The Fool IS a hypocrite.
-The Fool partly agrees with Reich, sexual repression is a major cause of psycho-social ills.
-The Fool read Anna Karenina sitting by a desert lake, looked up and fell back 20 million years.
-The Fool thinks it better to be spontaneously generous than calculatedly kind.
-The Fool believes art is a message to other artists.
-The Fool does not think science equals truth.
-The Fool argues art is more significant than science.
-The Fool thinks that after Mandelbrot maths is fractaled in chaos.
-The Fool thinks being rational is different to being reasonable.
-The Fool thinks pedants are a pain in the arse.
-The Fool sees beauty, then knows love is more than a chemical reaction.
-The Fool agrees with Heraclitus, everything moves.
-The Fool thinks Vivaldis' concerto for guitar in D minor is astonishingly beautiful.
-The Fool occasionally suffers from compassion fatigue.
-The Fool believes Descartes was one of the hidden council of the Rosicrucians.
-The Fool climbed a Kabbalah tree.
-The Fool thinks humans are different to other animals.
-The Fool thinks other animals are human too.
-The Fool delights in paradox.
-The Fool appreciates Escher.
-The Fool wonders whether politicians are truly human.
-The Fool could rave on forever.
-The Fool knows nothing.
-The Fool is wrong!
(c) Tony Foley 1991, 2006
1 comment:
I like it - great little poem, v thoughtful - has the added benefit of making want to go check out Reich and Themistocoles
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