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Eric Hancock

Eric Hancock has written 14 posts for The Witzelsucht Gazette

Tribalism

Karl Popper in The Open Society and It’s Enemies:
“There is no return to a harmonious state of nature.  If we turn back, then we must go the whole way-we must return to the beasts.
It is an issue which we must face squarely, hard though it may be for us to do so.  If we [...]

Basketball

with blue seams present, my hands forget to be hands, they are my eyes, and my eyes my hands,
both incapable of remembering
just after they’ve released their contents
a tear, and a ball,
what game?
“how I wish I could just be an eye”
a gentle implacable roving sphere
an agent without hand or an eye
seeing above the game,
floating in an [...]

Annihilating moments

paintings by Chris Martin
“Crumbling is not an instant’s Act”
Emily Dickinson
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act,
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays.
‘Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul,
A Cuticle of Dust,
A Borer in the Axis,
An Elemental Rust-
Ruin is formal-Devil’s work,
Consecutive and slow-
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping-is Crash’s law.
“I can see now I never really committed [...]

Novellla Part Two

The idea of studium and punctum had always interested me.  Could studium and punctum provide an answer to the interminable answers that I had been looking for.  ” I love You”, isn’t it a fun thing to say, to feel.. to say…same thing I guess.  Are they the same thing.? When did Saul become Paul [...]

Shoegaze ontology

“In philosophy, ontology(from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: of being (part. of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: science, study, theory) is the study of the nature of being, existence, or reality in general and of its basic categories and their relations. Traditionally listed as part of a major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology [...]

Novella Part One

I consented to looking at the diversion..a hand full of trail mix, and back up to face. One minute…wait a second.., was that a wasabi peanut…her face, her hair, her head. But where ‘s her face; she must be on her way out. I was thinking that I shouldn’t have let her beat [...]