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21 January, 2009
the Sleuth & the Clue
Clue: phonetic variant of clew (q.v.) “a ball of thread or yarn,” with reference to the one Theseus used as a guide out of the Labyrinth. The purely figurative sense of “that which points the way” is from 1628. Clueless is from 1862.
Sleuth: c.1200, “track or trail of a person,” from O.N. sloð “trail,” of [...]
13 January, 2009
« Ge-läut der Stille » . . .
When the early morning light quietly
grows above the mountains . . .
The world’s darkening never reaches
to the light of being.
We are too late for gods and too
early for being. Being’s poem,
just begun, is man.
To head toward a star – this only.
To think is to confine yourself to a
single thought that one day stands
still like a [...]
