Subject: Re: Stars
From: jason varsoke (jjv@swl.msd.ray.com)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 15:09:36 EDT
Bruce,
Your Rilke selection couldn't have put a finer point on it. My buddy
just called me. We have the same skill set / marketability. He just got
a job for 103k; talk about soothed.
-j
College bound students: if you want to sell out to the man go Computer
Science. The market makes it really easy. My buddy is 27.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, citycabn wrote:
> An untitled poem from 1913 by Rilke:
>
>
> Unknowing before the heavens of my life
> I stand in wonder. O the great stars.
> The rising and the going down. How quiet.
> As if I didn't exist. *Am* I part? Have I dismissed
> the pure influence? Do high and low tide
> alternate in my blood according to this order?
> I will cast off all wishes, all other links,
> accustom my heart to its remotest space. Better
> it live in the terror of its stars than
> seemingly protected, soothed by something near.
>
> (translation by Edward Snow, from _Uncollected Poems_).
>
> best wishes to Jason!
>
> --Bruce.
>
>
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