TOUGHTS

What
Pascal asked himself
is man:
A number raised to the zero power.
Nothing
compared to the whole
The whole
compared to nothing:
Birth plus death:
Noise multiplied by silence:
The arithmetical mean between all and nothing.

 

translated by Miller Williams
traducido por Miller Williams

 

en: Antipoems: New and Selected (edited by David Unger), New York, New Directions, 1985.

 

SISIB - Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades - Universidad de Chile