Posted by Rula Shin on 03/28/05 at 10:38 PM I love it! How very creative despite the calculating logic and strict form. You certainly worked it out didn't you!? "Somebody is nobody to everybody" - no family no friends, dies alone. "Nobody is somebody to everybody" - for how is it possible for any one body to know every other body in existence? "Everybody is nobody to somebody" - the recluse who lives inside himself alone and doesn't consider anyone else. "Nobody is everybody to somebody" - I'm not sure I agree with this (if I am understanding it correctly) for there is bound to be one who is ALL to another. "Everybody is somebody to nobody." - a clever way of repeating the second line. The conclusion: Yes as you well show, "EVERY NOBODY IS SOMEBODY" indeed! But I am afraid that this is but a mere way of speaking cleverly, a representation of a beautiful concept though not an accurate representation of WHY. For I do feel pity for the "Somebody [who] is nobody to everybody", for though in this poem and in this line he is both 'somebody' and 'nobody', he yet remains untouched. And though this does not make him singularly a "nobody", his being "somebody" has not anything to do with being nobody to all the rest....great thinking piece you have here :-)
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