KEATS AND YEAST ARE ON YOUR SIDE

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr

6 thoughts on “KEATS AND YEAST ARE ON YOUR SIDE

  1. they never guessed it, i sometimes wonder what I am doing as i eat and shit.
    am i doing champagne?

  2. actually, is it my unlimited intelligence that only allows me to shit instead of creating champagne?

  3. is it because i’m “intelligent” that i just do what i do without understanding that in the process i’m doing champagne? or is it because i’m just like the yeast that i’m actually doing champagne and will never realize it because of MY own level of understanding?

  4. Felipe García Landa says:

    The Smiths, I’m sure.

  5. teie says:

    I know (because of our limited intelligence) we’ll probably never be able to figure what sorts of wonders can our shit do… but at least we could make a few blind guesses…

    i like to think that superior beings would like to use out shit as construction material, they have a nice array of textures and if their planet is humid enough, they should have no problem with their edifications.

    anyone else?

    [And yes Felipe, The Smiths meet Vonnegut]

  6. gabriella says:

    (y ya que andamos de escatológicos aquí detrás de las cortinas del blog, les mando un cachito de un libro de cuentos de rubem fonseca–escritor brasileño, escatológico por turnos pero siempre excelente. el libro se llama “secreciones, excresiones y desatinos”. atinadamente.)

    (un fragmento de) Copromancia

    “¿Por qué Dios, el creador de todo lo que existe en el Universo, al dar existencia al ser humano, al sacarlo de la Nada, lo destinó a defecar? ¿Al atribuirnos esa irrevocable función de transformar en mierda todo lo que comemos, reveló su incapacidad para crear un ser perfecto? ¿O es que esa era su vouluntad, hacernos así, burdos? Ergo: ¿la mierda?

    No sé por qué empecé a tener ese tipo de preocupaciones. No soy un hombre religioso y siempre consideré a Dios un misterio más allá de la comprensión humana, por eso me interesaba poco… [...]… Lo cierto es que estaba pensando en Dios y observando mis heces en la taza del excusado.”

    (ciudades temporales en el excusado. o quizá ahí abajo en el drenaje profundo hay minúsculos marcianos y torres inmensas un tanto más permanentes. puede ser. sino en qué acaba todo lo de tantos millones de mexicanos)

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