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A Different Revolution
Despite what you may read in books, no revolution brews in noisy bars or quiet cafes among agreeing friends who decide the status quo is flawed, and pay their dues producing pamphlets that describe the means to reach some end. … Continue reading
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Tagged change, committees, evolution, hypocrisy, individuality, rebellion, revolution
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The Wheel
Some men stand tall, some men feel Some men show signs, some conceal Train is rolling, iron and steel Steam that blows the whistle never turns the wheel. Some men make plans, some men deal Some men kick out, some … Continue reading
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Tagged conceit, conflict, evolution, inevitability, insignificance, progress
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Of Human Bondage
Sometimes, the human race acts so advanced, its possibilities seem without end; and almost every minute, some new thing is brought into the world by our mere thought. And yet, our evolution is not done (it cannot be, or else … Continue reading
The Great American Novel
Ah, how many times I have seen those words in print … so and so wished to write the “Great American Novel”…Mr. X has effectively given us the “Great American Novel”. And yet, how many times have I wondered exactly … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, evolution, novelists, novels, The Great American Novel, writers, writing
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Significance
What makes me more significant than a full-grown elephant or tiny crawling ant or a blooming potted plant help me, for I really can’t figure out what makes me more gives me rights worth fighting for earns me wasteful things … Continue reading
The Universe
for LJ user ldy For those who praise abstinence, the big bang seems quite an obscene and vulgar notion – that the entire world would just simply hang together, making circular motions without a divine rudder seems absurd. But the … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, daily poems, evolution, poetry by request, sonnet, the universe
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On the Wasteland
So the old world is gone, let a new one replace it! The world is already dead; that figment of existence that you knew in the past, the places well-remembered, those fond scenes where the history of an ancient folk … Continue reading
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Tagged change, daily poems, eternity, evolution, The Wasteland, TS Eliot
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