<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417200" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Plain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was alone with a chair on a plain <br>Which lost itself in an empty horizon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plain was flawlessly paved. <br>Nothing, absolutely nothing but the chair and I <br>were there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky was forever blue, <br>No sun gave life to it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An inscrutable, insensible light <br>illuminated the infinite plain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To me this eternal day seemed to be projected -- <br>artificially-- from a different sphere. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was never sleepy nor hungry nor thirsty, <br>never hot nor cold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time was only an abstruse ghost <br>since nothing happened or changed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In me Time still lived a little <br>This, mainly, thanks to the chair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because of my occupation with it <br>I did not completely <br>lose my sense of the past. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now and then I'd hitch myself, as if I were a horse, to the chair <br>and trot around with it, <br>sometimes in circles, <br>and sometimes straight ahead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I assume that I succeeded. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether I really succeeded I do not know <br>Since there was nothing in space <br>By which I could have checked my movements. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I sat on the chair I pondered sadly, but not desperately, <br>Why the core of the world exuded such black light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jean+Arp">Jean Arp</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417200" data-title="The Plain de Jean Arp" data-description="I was alone with a chair on a plain Which lost itself in an empty horizon. The plain was flawlessly paved. Nothing, absolutely nothing but the chair and I were there. The sky was forever blue, No sun gave life to it. An inscrutable, inse..."></div> </div> </div>

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