Nonsense—like fear, sex and heavy metal—is a principle in life. At the very top of things, above all the heaving and the straining, there is a permanent layer of bubbling superfluity, of pristine biological froth: This is nonsense. Oddly, it can be quite hard to reach; there is no universal access to this layer. Anyone can be daft, or disruptive, or… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesI enjoyed your article very much, and therefore wished to say what´s on my mind about the subject: Chaos was formally described by Robert Devaney as something equivalent to a nonending behaviour of roaming around wich I understand like a constant, very human, stray in means of founding a clearer pad. Like a poem.
Sospecho lo obvio.
Los paisajes se cierran como cajas.Puedo peinar el agua.
Bajo la superficie nadan espejos,
escarabajos verdes que forman telarañas.Rebano una naranja.
Disfruto sus pedazos
mientras por la ventana pasan
rodando
montones de caracoles amarillos.Podría decirte también a dónde se dirigen,
pero es un secreto…
Posted by Carla on Jul 30, 2005 at 10:39 PM It was interesting to read the comment that Wallace Stevens supposedly made in 1959—he died in 1955!
Also, it’s news to me that “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” was written in the 30’s. The poem appears in Stevens’ first book, “Harmonium”, published in 1923.There’s all kinds of nonsense out there, eh?
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