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I went to my mom's house yesterday to borrow 'the idiot' and I also found a small book I haven't read by Gabriel Garcia Marquez called 'the story of a shipwrecked sailor' I read it last night and it was very good, of course it's not like his other books cause it's a true story but it has a bit of his characteristics. I don't now how the lifeboat he was on looks like so I think I want to find out cause he is always describing how he lay or sat and I don't really get it. I'll start 'the idiot' now, ...

I have this irrational fear of librarians, the sort that butcher with a look, the kind that I dread encountering alone in the deepest, most deserted aisles of the history section, far enough removed from the crowded fiction and self-help shelves that the cavalry can only come too late. Most of the library ladies of my childhood were sweet, helpful creatures always happy to assist me in finding some obscure book about my latest obsession, but some are genuinely terrifying and I am positive at least ...

Walking around a crowd
I tilt my head
wondering what you have to say.

"Don't you know enough about me
as to be scared?"
You said.
I laughed because I was not.
I didn't know you enough.

"I´m scare"
Now I say,
For I had known
The dark side of your soul.

Potent, acrid, & grimy --
the thing smelt like gasoline
and dirt

rubbed together
like a hippie worry bead
wrinkled

probably torn & soft as tissue
paper even by then
despite

his hands, which could not help
but paw the letter in his
pocket

Who knows what it said?
I sure don't. The ink was rubbed off when I
found it.

But I could still smell his workman's ...

I just finished reading [I]The Prince[/I] for the first time in maybe ten years. It is amazing to me the difference in view that the time has made. I remember the first time reading it, I was horrified by some of the tactics and the dishonesty that Machiavelli encouraged. I believed then, and I still believe now, that Machiavelli held a belief that all men are inherently evil. While I use the term evil quite loosely, I find that he did not believe in the goodness or honesty of people. The only ...