Bike Writing

Words are all that is left. Over the course of my trip I wrote all over my bike. I usually do and it was a source of amusement for those that could read English, as well as giving me something to think about . . . here is a selection.

"devotion frees"
"the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people" - Marx
"normality is death" - Adorno - a simple phrase with a multiplicity of meaning
"is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves" - Nietzsche
"life is too short for soft porn" - New Yorker cartoon - it is not really about porn children
"go on get out last words are for fools you have not said enough" - Marx - good advice
"abandon hope" - Buddhist saying that is not meant to be depressing . . . think about it
"anything too stupid to be said is often sung" - Voltaire - witty guy
"the rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" - Marx - I thought of this after meeting many rich kids volunteering to help the poor while on vacation . . . maybe they should just write a check to the poor?
"you don't know you are having fun until you fall down" - I always say this and I fall a lot.
"we must have a pessimism of the mind and optimism of the will" - Gramsci - thought of this while doing things hard
"gracious one, play. The universe is an empty shell werein your mind frolics infinitely." - a tantra and good attitude to cultivate
"Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing." - tantra that I contemplated while crossing the Atacama because it seemed like a good escape. I thought of you, Dave Y, because I know you really like this one . . .
"Put attention neither on pleasure or pain but between these." - while climbing 1000's of meters yet again
"Roam about until exhausted and then dropping to the ground, in this dropping be whole." - that is just what I was doing, usually dropping fast asleep before I even ate dinner