Compositions from Cogitation
Political discourse, short stories & poetry by Justin Hew
,,C’est un dicton des petits enfants que l’es gens sont pendus quelquefois pour avoir dit la verité.” Jeanne D’Arc
“It’s a saying among children that sometimes people are hung for speaking the truth.” Joan of Arc
A Short Commentary on Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
“The easy possibility of writing letters must have brought wrack and ruin to the souls of the world. Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts, and by no means just the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing.” “In a way, you…
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Brief Commentary on The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
During the turn of the 19th century (and early 20th century), there emerged a renewed fascination for the “involuntary workings of the mind”. Samuel Butler propounded a theory about the “collective unconscious” (His Erewhon (1872) is a most interesting read), Myers wrote about the “sublimal self”, William James penned much about a concept known as “stream of…
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Short Review of The Plague (La Peste) by Albert Camus
La Peste (or the Plague) by Albert Camus speaks loudly to us now amid our harsh times. As it tells of a predicament experienced by the people of the urban Algerian city of Oran following the outbreak of a malignant pestilence, which is quite pertinent to our contemporary struggles. But the book is ultimately intended…
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Red (a Poem by me)
Of love and of life, My mightiest lie You grace to say, You were once mine, But has ne’er really been, For I belonged—in a long, long a Chasm, like a foetus in a bottle And awaiting the pain of a throttle. My dearest, you’ve betrothed me, As I have you. It was a…
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Piano (a Short Story by me)
This was written in 2017, when I was yet 15 The rain was striking cascades on the window slits, the balustrade and the parapets. All I wished was for you to drown those noises from your playing Bach. But you could not. The irksome noises emanated from the outside interrupted the beautiful opus. While the…
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Come (a Poem on the 2018 Malaysian Election)
This was written in 2018 We have come aloud, Our voices soaring as clouds Of a tempest— So grave, so sound, so resonate. In the thousands of cacodemons that haunt, None has glinted in the shine of dawn And now we have come, And the presiding protector too— Our fidelity, and of love and of…
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The Tremor of Love (a Poem) by Justin Hew
The tremor of love, sweet— As a honeysuckle; painful as I deign inexplicable. On once a sullen night, blustery— And the tepid rustle of poplar leaves, Cascading rivulet, and as night flowed– I meandered in thoughts and came upon you: I was lured by your heart, And implore shall I in askance, What was in…
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The Lull of Connection (a Poem)
This poem was inspired by an image of Japanese urban lifestyle The rain subsided, overhead gusts– Of wind, swirling like gosammer. The pathways of fine-hewn stones, bustling, from pole to pole. It was a starry night, and under– The silhouette of the night sky, People of tepid temperaments, Meandered along. From Innocence, we see– Screens…
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Lover to Loved (a Poem)
Thoughts, the slave of life, and lifetime’s fool Oh! What is love, it all so yule— Let all of life be menial ahowl! All I need is just you, you so my graceful fancy. Soul of my song— Oh, please hear me schmancy. For you had love and I had lust. The flesh of which,…
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