July 2011
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Poem "Tantalus"
Here’s a poem that occurred to me the other night. I’ve been paring it down since then. It’s more an image than a complete thought, but I quite like the premise: indifference to suffering endlessly prolonged. That’s the most captivating thing about notions of eternal punishment as expressed through legends like Tantalus’. What do they do with boredom and...