My mind works in bizarre ways. The FIRST thing that came to mind when I saw your "question mark" was an episode of the Simpsons in which reclusive author Thomas Pynchon appeared. His animated doppelganger wore a paper bag with a question mark on it.
One of my favorite poets, Rilke, wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet>
"I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…"
If the question mark has meaning, I do not yet know what it is. I only know it is meaningful because I posted it.
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Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endChris Annunziata - March 19, 2008 9:14 AM
My mind works in bizarre ways. The FIRST thing that came to mind when I saw your "question mark" was an episode of the Simpsons in which reclusive author Thomas Pynchon appeared. His animated doppelganger wore a paper bag with a question mark on it.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/pynchonsimpsons460.jpg
Pynchon .... Question mark .... Maybe I shouldn't share the inner workings of my mind.....
Vickie - March 19, 2008 11:35 AM
One of my favorite poets, Rilke, wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet>
"I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…"
If the question mark has meaning, I do not yet know what it is. I only know it is meaningful because I posted it.