Lightning Words: Aphorisms

By Robert Seidel Costic

Costic offers 400 aphorisms in the vein of Nietzsche and La Rochefoucauld.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Seidel Costic
• Release date: Sep 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310642739

Robert Seidel Costic

Robert S. Costic is a writer splitting his time between New York City and Washington, DC. He has written a collection of tales, of which three have appeared in the literary journals ImageOutWrite ("Lydia of the Bears"), Off the Rocks ("Ascension"), and SCAB ("The Foreskin of Finitude"). His other ebooks include translations of fairy tales by Theodor Storm, Friedrich Hebbel, and "Jean Qui Rit," a novella, "Kepler's Revenge," a polemic on politics and music, "Sound's Weight," and a collection of aphorisms, "Lightning Words."

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LIGHTNING WORDS

APHORISMS

By Robert Seidel Costic

Copyright 2015

Robert Seidel Costic

Dedicated to Beverly Shulman

1. We start off being anonymous to ourselves.

2. We are raised an artifice that takes it all naturally.

3. We often mistake the familiar for the natural.

4. What we consider natural is more about attitude than truth.

5. The more obligated we feel to perform a task, the less natural it feels.

6. Inauthenticity is the scapegoat of our alienation.

7. Some take pride in defying nature; others have guilt over defying nature; and yet others make defying nature look natural.

8. In the end nothing is unnatural, even the lies we tell about it.

9. Nature doesn’t intend.

10. Artifice is our contribution to nature.

11. Exploitation is not mastery.

12. People die for their gender as people die for their religion, but it does not mean God exists.

13. Societies that justify their rules as according to nature know less about nature than nature knows about them.

14. Machismo exists as an insecurity in constant need to prove its own existence.

15. Drag queens reveal the surface’s presence.

16. Men belie their weakness when they must prove their manhood.