A resonant passage from Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes, which should have wide circulation (and links) for pedagogical and moral purposes.
I am a failed fire chief
I am a failed thief
Didn’t I fail at the wrong thing, aren’t I a failure at failure
Failure is inevitable
I am a fan of failure
I am a failure flailed by failure
I leap into failure
I relish the self-pity that’s produced by the self-loathing that comes as a consequence of failure
The sauce has curdled, the meat is tough, the custard is runny—the meal is a failure
Failure is the offshoot of argument—but then failure occurs too from a lack of it
Moral failure
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