Harold Carr
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Wed, 21 Jan 2004I am a flame - brightly burning then flickering, finally leaving ash. But water dominates fire and washes the ashes away - Thales trumps Heraclitus. But Heraclitus introduces the crucial concept of change, so seems more apt. Bataille mixes them both with his metaphor of a "wave in water."
A wave in water is the image of time, Cronus creating and devouring all. I am time. (Being Time, the title of my second book of poetry.) We are an unlikely and fragile occurrence.
Harold Carr
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