Steven
L. Jessup
Associate
Professor of Biology
e-mail:
jessup@sou.edu
Office:
SC 206
Phone: (541) 552-6804
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...this place, if I could describe this
place, portray it, I've tried, I
feel no
place, no place around me,
there's no
end to me, I don't know what it
is, it
isn't flesh, it doesn't end,
it's like air...
The Unnamable
Samuel
Beckett

On Human Life
Weep for the troubles of human life
now more than
usual, Heraclitus:
it overflows with many calamities.
You, on the other
hand, Democritus,
laugh even more, if ever you laughed:
life has become
more ridiculous.
Meanwhile, seeing these things, I wonder:
how far in
the end, Heraclitus,
I may weep with you,
or how, Democritus,
I may
joke merrily with you.
Alciato -
Emblem 152
"I can't go on . . .
.
. . I'll go on . . ."