My friend: Hey, is there any way you could find out if there is a warrant for my arrest in the PRC?
Me: Why do you think I have such high penetrating power? I am only an editor of a journal whose blog is blocked in China.
My friend: I'm serious about the arrest warrant. If I ask them and there isn't one, then there will be one. If there is one, I can't go and get arrested.
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"NOTHING
ReplyDeleteof the memorable crisis
where the event matured,
accomplished in sight of all
non-existent human outcomes,
WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE
a commonplace elevation
pours out absence
BUT THE PLACE
some lapping below,
as if to scatter the empty act abruptly,
that otherwise by its falsity
would have plumbed perdition,
in this region of vagueness,
in which all reality dissolves"
---- Stephane Mallarme
from his poem
"A Throw of the Dice
Will Never Abolish Chance"