~~" it is about to close." (on a storefront)
"seguiremos subiendo"
~~"we keep on going up." (on a youth center mural)
perhaps not the unfortunate merchant, nor the boy who can't slam-dunk, but in my metaphorical world, one does have a choice, eh?
but this:
"utopia es pensar que el mundo puede seguir asi por mas tiempo."
~~"utopia is thinking that the world can go on like this for longer."
which brought my cat's zig-zaggy brain to do a quick etymological search, only to be reminded that the word utopia is formed from 2 greek roots: "no" (ou) and "place/land" (topos), thus meaning "nowhere" or more literally, "no-place/no-land". those proselytizers of the great awakening(s) surely saw "world" in a truer more macro sense, and endeavored to create personal and potentially larger havens of free worship, free economies or free love. but i'm feeling awfully tiny and internalized these days... and *that* cake-eating world with which i've been so intimately acquainted, the one in which i seemed most to fit, seems more and more on the other side of the gates.
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