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‎Overmorrow’s Library, Federico Campagna
‎Overmorrow’s Library, Federico Campagn

Daedalus And Icarus

Daedalus says:
Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flying
the wings are just an ornament and you are stepping on a meadow
that warm gust is just the humid earth of summer
and that cold one is a brook
the sky is full of leaves and small animals

Icarus says:
The eyes like two stones return straight to earth
and see a farmer who knocks asunder oily till
a grub which wiggles in a furrow
bad grub which cuts the bond of a plant with the earth

Daedalus says:
Sonny this is not true The Cosmos is merely light
and earth is a bowl of shadows Look as here colors play
dust rises from above the sea smoke rises to the sky
of noblest atoms a rainbow sets itself now

Icarus says:
Arms hurt father from this beating at vacuum
legs are getting numb and miss thorns and sharp stones
I cannot keep looking at the sun as you do father
I sunken whole in the dark rays of the earth

Description of the catastrophe:
Now Icarus falls down head first
the last frame of him is a glimpse of a heal childlike small
being swallowed by the devouring sea
Up above the father cries out the name
which no longer belongs to a neck or a head
but only to a remembrance

Commentary:
He was so young did not understand that wings are just a metaphor
a bit of wax and feathers and a contempt for the laws of gravitation
I cannot hold a body at an elevation of a great many feet
The essence of the matter is in having our hearts
which are coursed by heavy blood
fill with air
and this very thing Icarus did not want to accept

let us pray

Zbigniew Herbert

“FEAR’S DECEIT IS THAT IT WILL MANAGE OUTCOMES FOR YOU.

WORRYING IS LIKE THE POOR MAN’S DIVINATION.”

styptic:
adj. (of a substance) capable of causing bleeding to stop when it is applied to a wound

styptic

Omar Rizwan: “I’m relatively opposed to trying to articulate a philosophy or have a manifesto of what should be done. I’m much more drawn to ‘OK, let’s have this set of striking, concrete images, of things that would be cool or would feel good’, and having that in the back of your head as an anchor for what computing could be like.”

…

Devon Zuegel: “Why do you prefer the striking images approach as opposed to the manifesto approach?”

Omar: “I have this implicit assumption that this is the way people think. They anchor onto an image or an idea that they can picture in their head, and that’s something they can keep coming back to. Whereas a philosophy or a set of rules is satisfying to write, but I don’t know if it’s as creatively useful as having a bunch of images. And maybe in a few years I can articulate a philosophy, but I think images are the important thing.”

Devon: “I think something with verbalized principles is they can sound like very clear tests you can apply, but when it comes to actually building something, it’s a lot less clear if you are meeting that principle. Company values at tech companies often have this problem where you’re trying to decide between A and B, and one person is like ‘well A follows our company values more’, and another person is like ‘well no, B is actually more…’, and neither of them is totally wrong. Versus if you have a concrete example you can be like ‘well, this thing is more like that thing and they share these characteristics’.

Omar: “I think principles are the ashes or excreted product of this really rich thing in your head, and you try to write it down, but you’re really not getting most of it. Or if other people get it, that’s because they’ve been able to reconstruct the thing in your head.”

— Slightly paraphrased from from Notion’s Tools & Craft podcast

Whenever the collective grief and rage threatens to wipe me out (and sometimes it does), I root in the memory that our capacity to love and imagine new worlds is as relentless as the violence. So we gather and we pray and we protest and we rage and we read and we remember the world we’re dreaming of is embedded in the world we have.

I’m someone who can make someone else feel like certain things are possible.

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Isnt praying just having the courage to desire out loud? Is praying only limited in its direction? Can we pray to friends? Can we pray to ourselves? To the trees? To anger? To nothing? Can we pray even when we feel like we don’t deserve it? What’s the harm in an ask? You never do a thing alone. Why not acknowledge it? Does the acknowledgement make you small? Is it speaking your powerlessness that makes it real? Or does it make you big? To place it in the hands of something that is bigger than you, but is also you?

Praying inspired by phe asking me to pr…