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Tag Archives: misinterpretation
Rabelais
I would un-Crowley Rabelais to taste, unplagiarized the simple, yet sarcastic truths that Aleister disguised: that man, if left the sole device of acting with free will would, after some adjustment, neither harm, debase or kill but would instead seek … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Francois Rabelais, knowledge, misinterpretation, plagiarism, wit
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Kerrying the Right Message?
Here’s a thought I had in response to a recent post on the KerryNewOrleans group at Yahoo: > anyone have a monthly meeting or something? > > I moved here last year, I now it is Hot here until election … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged activism, campaigning, education, grassroots, ignorance, John Kerry, misinterpretation, politics
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Building Around a Thing
“I know it when I see it,” said the man who vainly tried conveying truth to friends. “When it is absent, the space that it leaves unfilled describes it clearly, end to end; and though there are no words to … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Buckminister Fuller, communication, conversations, failure, misinterpretation, truth
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Hanging Prayer Flags
You can’t hang those outside our house, she said, looking at the string of fifteen small flags that I carefully unrolled and held out, stretched to full arms length across my big chest – it will look like an all-night … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, daily poems, decorations, misinterpretation, paradox, sonnet
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