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Daily Archives: May 1, 2004
Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness?
From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Charters, artists, Generation X, peers, the 60s, The Portable Beat Reader
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What If and the Temptations
WHAT IF: Money actually grew on trees? You actually had more than one once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Your face actually stayed in the guise of some hideous scowl you made when you were six? Things were easier done than said? What was … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged awareness, gravity, illusions, pointlessness, potential, temptation
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Zen and the Art of Arc Welding
Split ends of clock’s tick and flee from the circle of power where union is meet in a cooper’s wheel, hard and hot like fire from welding’s arc and concentrated blue flame. It’s not so much the trip, he says, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged connection, distrust, failure, miscommunication, relationships, wholeness, Zen, Zen and the Art of Archery
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