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Monthly Archives: July 2005
Critical Path
July is gone, and the pecans have now begun to set on the old tree along the bayou; sometimes, we forget the simple things that mark the seasons. We’ve no need of clocks or calendars. Whatever reasons we invent to … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckminister Fuller, Critical Path, Indian summer, seasons, technology, time
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What Happens If
What happens if, as a martyr in training, you learn self-abandonment, lose fear of death, imagine your sacrifice each waking moment, practice your from-the-flames speech in the mirror, give not a thought to your present or future, trust that your … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, discipline, martyrs, possibilities, potential, rebellion, revolution
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What price a pawn
What price paid by a pawn who makes, if merely by sheer luck or chance, its way through fields strewn by mistakes in focused, single step advance to the far end of what it knows, where all the trappings of … Continue reading
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Tagged coersion, control, daily poems, games, hierarchies, leadership, power, sacrifice
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Onrefni Setnad Taeper*
I am an arctic gypsy come hither to enjoy the warm, crackling fires of Hell. I have ferried across the Mississippi with a hooded man; he had a record deal and told me he once had played the drums, mentioning … Continue reading
The Ten Percent Solution
Lobotomy perhaps provides the clues: that with what meager portion of the brain society encourages us to use and education bothers us to train, we think, and therefore are, so far reduced from what potential might be in the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, education, experimentation, exploration, genius, ideas, thought
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