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Even television newscast bears witness to the fact
that the magical function of the eye is at the center of all things.
:22:33
It's election time:
the winning candidates black out the empty eye of Daruma
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the spirit of luckwhile losing candidates
sad but dignifiedcarry off their one-eyed Daruma.
:22:48
The images most difficult to figure out are those of Europe.
:22:50
I watched the pictures of a film
whose soundtrack will be added later.
:22:54
It took me six months for Poland.
:23:01
Meanwhile, I have no difficulty with local earthquakes.
:23:03
But I must say that last night's quake
helped me greatly to grasp a problem.
:23:09
Poetry is born of insecurity:
wandering Jews, quaking Japanese;
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by living on a rug that jesting nature
is ever ready to pull out from under them
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they've got into the habit of moving
about in a world of appearances: fragile, fleeting, revocable,
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of trains that fly from planet to planet,
of samurai fighting in an immutable past.
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That's called 'the impermanence of things.'