You know, recently I got a book listing all the animal species that have Disappeared off the face of the earth called All the Disappeared Animal Life Forms of the World
The list is really impressive and it included the dates and territories Where the animals were last sighted. Or wherever the last fossil was Unearthed
Now as you probably know 99.9 per cent of the species who have ever Lived are now extinct. So this is a very long list including massive Numbers of civets, big subsets of spotted lizards, every last mastodon The short-faced bear, the Shrub-ox, fifteen chapters on sloths. And one Whole chapter on the one-eared dinosaur
It was amazing, you cannot imagine how many kinds of weasels have Come and gone. The publishers claim that the book is a definitive Masterpiece. In fact, according to them, the book actually weighs Approximately thirty weasels. And so goodbye to the disappeared ones There they go, hopping and jumping away, swimming and floating away Gone forever. Vaporized as if they'd never existed except for a few bones And footprints. Nothing much left but their names
You know the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet is alef. And the letter alef Actually has no sound. It's a letter with no sound, a mental letter. So to Say alef you open your mouth and you think of the letter and you start to say It and then you stop And that is alef
That's the thing with words... they leave so much to the imagination Like in yoga class when the teacher saying things like, "Imagine your Breath is filling the entire room." Or, "Imagine that your legs are planted In the ground and they keep going down and down under the ground like Roots like fifteen feet down" and you can actually feel your legs doing that
And really they could just go on and on in this vein like, "Now imagine That you've swallowed your head and it's inside your stomach and you're Upside down and you can't open your eyes and you're completely stuck There." Things like that
I have to say that often it's much better to talk about things than to actually Do them. Take for example - a very long expedition to the North Pole
You know the reason I really love the stars? It's that we cannot hurt Them. We can't burn them. We can't melt them or make them overflow We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them
And ah yes the moon and stars are up there like acquaintances I had Always meant to befriend Yes I meant to learn their names but for various Reasons having to do with lack of time and lack of ambition I never did do That. And they remained up in the sky as nameless as if we'd never been Here at allTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
