2021.01.28
"I am using the time to catch up on my study of poetry."Grabbed it from this tumblr entry, one of the comments was
"Data, there's nothing on the screen."
"That is not entirely correct. While it is true the display is currently blank, this... emptiness has a poetic meaning. Therefore, it cannot be considered 'nothing' as such."
"Says who?"
"The ancient Doosodarians. Much of their poetry contains such lacunae or empty spaces. Often, these pauses measured several days in length, during which poet and audience were encouraged to fully acknowledge the emptiness of the experience."
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"This particular poem has a lacuna of 47 minutes. You may experience the emptiness with me if you wish."
“you may experience the emptiness with me if you wish” is all at once 1) a very cool thing to say and 2) unbearably romantic