The War of the Worlds

     But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
     inhabited? .  .  .  Are we or they Lords of the
     World? .  .  .  And how are all things made for man?--
          KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE

THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE

THE EVE OF THE WAR

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

PREFACE

SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien—IF, indeed, it stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen, that all dogma

Barisan Nisan

matahari terlalu pagi mengkhianati
pena terlalu cepat terbakar
kemungkinan terbesar sekarang adalah memperbesar kemungkinan pada ruang ketidak-mungkinan
sehingga setiap orang yang kami temui tak menemukan lagi satu pun sudut kemungkinan untuk berkata "Tidak mungkin"
tanpa darah mereka mengering
sebelum mata pena berkarat, menolak kembali terisi
sebelum semua paru disesaki tragedi
dan pengulangan menemukan maknanya sendiri
dalam pasar dan semerbak deodorant
atau mungkin dalam limbah dan kotoran
atau mungkin dalam seragam sederetan nisan
atau mungkin dalam pembebasan ala monitor 14 inci yang menawarkan hasrat pembangkangan, ala Levi's dan Nokia
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Zaman Edan oleh Ronggowarsito

Pancen amenangi jaman edan,
sing ora edan ora kaduman.
Sing waras padha nggragas,
sing tani padha ditaleni.
Wong dora padha ura-ura.
Begjane sing eling lan waspada.
Ratu ora netepi janji,
musna prabawane lan kuwandane.
Akeh omah ing ndhuwur kuda.
Wong mangan wong,
kayu gilingan wesi padha doyan rinasa
enak kaya roti bolu.

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Lahir : Bandung, 25 Juli 1959

Wafat : Bandung, 19 Juni 2012