Random Noodling: Ekphrastic April, Day 11: "Skaters"

April 11, 2021

"Skaters" by Marianne von Werefkin [1860-1938].

ice skating

at night I think of myself
as a dark presence flying

over the ice snatching
bits of private conversations
like a bat catches mosquitoes

Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

~ umair haque

Featuring cherita!

April 11, 2021

Ekphrastic April, Day 11: "Skaters"

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