#heredotus

[vrouopgenade]

Koelkop

©Rina Bester Ek raak nooit betrokke by politiekery nie, maar ek maak Heredotus se wysheid aan die einde van elke dag deel van my aandgebed wat ek aan die wêreld se magsdraers opdra: “Vader, gee aan hulle koel koppe en wysheid om ons wêreld heel te hou, al is die verskille hoe groot. Want niemand is tog so gek om oorlog bo vrede te begeer nie? Dit is dan nou eenmaal so dat seuns hul vaders in…

Koelkop

[liberat1on]

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Heredotus

[likeathunderbolt]

Of the extreme tracts of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with any certainty.

Heredotus.

[amandaearl]

Notes on Heredotus

I'm a semi-pro

fessional liber

tine

he's a lithe fel

low

we talk of practi

calities

I read po

etry

converse intermit

tently

with the traveller

from his notes on Here

dotus

or Barthes' The Pleasure of

the Text

a Victorian wo

man in Trini

dad

exchanges a silver box

of secrets

for a dead butter

fly collection

if

I

drink gin

ger & or

ange

with em

phasis on

the ginger

to achieve immor

tality

while being wind-

bombed

by maple keys be

neath the shade of a

macabre I-almost-wrote

dying

  [to lie change the scene my graphite imagination fills shadows in]

  how two unlike pe

ople can connect

she is oil he is bitter both

light

slippery elu

sive the qual

ity of she qualifies (illusion)

in her spider cur

sive

the price of admission

he hedges, too cheep

a silver hair left

between pages

a clue his legs ghost pale

he eats candy