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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Monster of Mr Cogito</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lucky Saint George <br>from his knight's saddle <br>could exactly evaluate <br>the strength and movements of the dragon </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the first principle of strategy <br>is to assess the enemy accurately </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mr Cogito <br>is in a worse position <br>he sits in the low <br>saddle of a valley <br>covered with thick fog </div><div style="margin:10px 0">through fog it is impossible to perceive <br>fiery eyes <br>greedy claws <br>jaws </div><div style="margin:10px 0">through fog <br>one sees only <br>the shimmering of nothingness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the monster of Mr Cogito <br>has no measurements <br>it is difficult to describe <br>escapes definition </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is like an immense depression <br>spread out over the country </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it can't be pierced <br>with a pen </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with an argument <br>or spear </div><div style="margin:10px 0">were it not for its suffocating weight <br>and the death it sends down <br>one would think <br>it is the hallucination <br>of a sick imagination <br>but it exists <br>for certain it exists </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like carbon monoxide it fills <br>houses temples markets </div><div style="margin:10px 0">poisons wells <br>destroys the structures of the mind <br>covers bread with mould </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the proof of the existence of the monster <br>is its victims </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is not direct proof <br>but sufficient</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">reasonable people say <br>we can live together <br>with the monster </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we only have to avoid <br>sudden movements <br>sudden speech </div><div style="margin:10px 0">if there is a threat assume <br>the form of a rock or a leaf </div><div style="margin:10px 0">listen to wise Nature <br>recommending mimicry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that we breathe shallowly <br>pretend we aren't there </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Mr Cogito however <br>does not want a life of make-believe <br>he would like to fight <br>with the monster <br>on firm ground </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so he walks out at dawn <br>into a sleepy suburb <br>carefully equipped <br>with a long sharp object </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he calls to the monster <br>on the empty streets <br>he offends the monster <br>provokes the monster </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a bold skirmisher <br>of an army that doesn't exist </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he calls - <br>come out contemptible coward </div><div style="margin:10px 0">through the fog <br>one sees only <br>the huge snout of nothingness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mr Cogito wants to enter <br>the uneven battle <br>it ought to happen <br>possibly soon </div><div style="margin:10px 0">before there is <br>a fall from inertia <br>an ordinary death without glory <br>suffocation from formlessness</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zbigniew+Herbert">Zbigniew Herbert</a><div class=q>
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Lucky Saint George 
from his knight's saddle 
could exactly evaluate 
the strength and movements of the dragon 

the first principle of strategy 
is to assess the enemy accurately 

Mr Cogito 
is in a worse position 
he sits in the low 
saddle..."></div>
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