Soap bubbles
Walter Scott wrote many novels,
often rather long and tedious,
and he kept on writing them
beyond his bankruptcy,
despite the fact that they grew constantly more boring.
It was said of him that all his dedication
was to blowing up soap bubbles
for his own interest only,
in a narcissistic bluff of great dimensions,
but there is a major difference.
Soap bubbles will burst and come to nothing,
while, as already the Romans put it,
"Verba volant, verba scripta manent,"
what is written will endure;
and many of his novels will remain
as marvels of invention, second only to the Shakespeare poet.
Never mind the audiences of ignorant indifferent readers,
who will never read a book through,
and are bored by merely the sight of letters,
as most people are illiterate intellectually,
as hopeless cases to be pitied for their limitation.
That which matters is what you pen down with honesty
and know sincerely for sure that it was worth the trouble
of preserving as experiences and thoughts and insights;
and if there will be no other readers of your texts at all,
there's still the possibility that God himself
will read them the more carefully.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2019-04-27 at 09:55
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