in the natural history museum- an incompetent dialogue, it says stephen mallarme wrote in *1987, one roll of the dice will never abolish chance.

*given that he died in 1898, this may be conjecture, quantum projection, or erratum. nonetheless it is by now indubitably true.

 we will never get to the bottom of it. we will never abolish it. not even by chance. chance will never abolish chance.

 that chance is actually the surest, the absolute principle, was nothing less than a revolutionary, prophetic claim, as almost everything seemed to be secure and ordered.

 but it is precisely at this point that everything collapsed: the empires, politics, the world view...world wars brought full collapse, and now we stand there, hoping and wanting to believe in meaning, but we can't.

  and yet...

the same strength that keeps us alive, that lets every dog believe in itself, every tree grow.

daniel spoerri,
the carnival of animals.