Psalm

How leaky are the borders of man-made states!
How many clouds float over them scot-free,
how many desert sands sift from country to country,
how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf
in provocative leaps!

Need I cite each and every bird as it flies,
or alights, as now, on the lowered gate?
Even if it be a sparrow— its tail is abroad,
though its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough— it keeps fidgeting!

Out of countless insects I will single out the ant,
who, between the guard’s left and right boots,
feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination.

If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail
on every continent!
Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank
smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river?
Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed,
would violate the sacred territorial waters?

How can we speak of any semblance of order
when we can’t rearrange the stars,
to know which one shines for whom?

Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog!
Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range
as though it weren’t split in two!
Or voices carried over accommodating air waves:
summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles!

Only what’s human can be truly alien.
The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind.

—Wisława Szymborska
—translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak

“你干啥总是提老毛？老毛是你的人生偶像吗？”
“老毛不是我的人生偶像，老毛是我做人的底线。”

Slovenes have apparently always had a kind of schizophrenic love-hate relationship with their language. Language was and still is their untouchable relic, a national value or treasure, something always to talk about when a new pravopis or grammar comes out, but at the same time something to forget about as soon as confronted with a non-Slovene speaker in Belgrade or abroad or even in Slovenia itself. If there is one problem area which generates most heat and serves as a catalyst for current value-oriented discussion, it is the Slovenian-Serbo-Croatian language contact.


反正这孩子就是彻底被阿妈带坏了，指（指谁啊你

ＳＭ診断メーカー

Attempts or aspirations of secession from the United States have been a feature of the politics of the country since its birth. The line between actions based on an alleged constitutional right of secession as opposed to actions justified by the extraconstitutional natural right of revolution has shaped the political debate. Except for the American Revolution which created the United States, no such movement, revolution or secession, has succeeded.
A 2008 Zogby International poll revealed that 22% of Americans believed while 73% did not believe that "any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent republic."