Tuesday 25 March 2003

If Mike can do it, why can’t I? 160 One no longer loves one’s knowledge enough when one has communicated it. 161 Poets behave impudently towards their experiences: they exploit them. —Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, or, How to philosophize with a hammer Nietzsche: Less systematic than Wittgenstein; more insane. Likee? Writing of which, and in consideration of Mike’s run-in with Bono, and more succinctly: Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief; all kill their inspiration and sing about their grief. —“The Fly” Achtung, Baby U2 12:53:15 AM    comment []

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