tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49567942342170566882024-03-13T17:40:27.930-07:00The Lady of the Swamp"An astonishing book of many merits for readers of intelligent dystopia" - Claire Rhoden review of "House of the Flight-helpers", Tartarus Press UK, 2019
Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-6858697882528451202023-12-09T00:56:00.000-08:002023-12-09T00:56:28.438-08:00Mama<p> Maria was a tiny El Salvadorian lady who I saw four times a week in one of the nursing homes where I worked. She was about four foot tall, with long, grey hair in a bun, and a giant skirt that exploded out from underneath her breasts. I don't mind admitting that Maria was probably my favourite old lady. She had quite advanced dementia.</p><p>Maria spoke only in Spanish, so I started calling her "Mama", and the name was soon taken up by some of the carers. Having a smattering of Spanish, I could inject a word here and there into our conversations, backed up with exaggerated facial expressions. Every time I saw her, Mama would ask about "tu esposo" (my husband), and I would shake my head and sadly tell her "no esposo", to which information she would look suitably sympathetic.</p><p>Mama's own <i>esposo</i> had died some years before, but she had a photo of him on her bedside table, and she would feed him with her dinner. Consequently, there was a permanent smear of mashed vegetables on the glass that cleaning staff would wipe off every now and again.</p><p>Mama loved to draw, and her walls would be decorated with her pencil and crayon creations. Eventually, the activities staff covered the walls of her room in large sheets of butchers' paper, so that she could continue creating what I imagined to be rainbow-coloured angels and the Virgin Mary.</p><p>The worst times for Mama and for staff were the days when she had to have a shower and a change of clothes. Staff, understandably, dreaded the drama of trying to undress her and get her into the shower. Screams would ensue, and Mama would accuse carers of stealing her clothes. However, after the fracas, she would be clean and tidy and settled in her chair. </p><p>There were five daughters who visited often, although it was painful for the youngest, who had been born years later than her sisters, with a different father. Mama would not, could not, acknowledge her. This was obviously very upsetting for that daughter. </p><p>I really miss those old people that I saw every day of the working week. There was such a "nakedness" between us, at times, that it was transcendental. I suppose she is probably dead, now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnLALAhbosLjVs_vcmvSmz1CyceEM5cQvvqUyE8o917ZNmEFOUkTvqB0gj2hK7Fmu9FnQ4Aqsrw2CZa07oDEM3UBa41y4QArEM0fJkTUHZVUB5Yh0iCRxLzlmlWn_Ub9A2o3dH3MN3ZNmwOHRQ3ruSBQ1qMat7VOlM9CG9BcRjlvSxcBvnhyphenhyphenVuueN-CAX/s849/el%20salvador.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="849" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnLALAhbosLjVs_vcmvSmz1CyceEM5cQvvqUyE8o917ZNmEFOUkTvqB0gj2hK7Fmu9FnQ4Aqsrw2CZa07oDEM3UBa41y4QArEM0fJkTUHZVUB5Yh0iCRxLzlmlWn_Ub9A2o3dH3MN3ZNmwOHRQ3ruSBQ1qMat7VOlM9CG9BcRjlvSxcBvnhyphenhyphenVuueN-CAX/s320/el%20salvador.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-83469957411780145312022-11-23T13:37:00.000-08:002022-11-23T13:37:14.938-08:00Unbecoming a Writer<p> It's about a year since I've done any serious writing. I decided to detox myself from the phony literary world of publishers, prize-winners and book launches. I realised how much, since the age of seven, when I first stood on my father's bed to type a story on Aunty Molly's old Olivetti typewriter, I had been groomed and lured into the Cult of Literature. </p><p>My father's room, "The Little Room", previously and euphemistically referred to as a "sunroom", was off our narrow galley kitchen. Originally, there was a plank door, but it ended up with a curtain across the doorway. I don't remember when that happened. I have a few memories of it before it was my father's bedroom. I recall mounds of fresh washing lying on the single bed, waiting to be ironed or folded. And there was the old cane basket that was my mother's only laundry basket. I had it for many years, when my own children were small. I remember the creak of it. I ended up setting fire to it, one afternoon. Lucas had been away somewhere, and we had a small birthday tea ready for him on his return. I had already hung the old basket from the central pole of the house and had thoughtlessly lit a candle on the tiny ledge underneath it. It soon caught fire and ended up with a burnt gap under one handle.</p><p>My brother slept in the Little Room when he was very ill with gastroenteritis ("tincter-tincteritis", as he referred to it). We must both have been very young. Our childhoods were plagued with various tummy wogs, most likely due to the can toilet down the back that was not enough for a family of six. </p><p>The Little Room was unlined. There was one single bed on the left, and the aforementioned wardrobe on the right. The big, old, black typewriter could be reached by standing on the edge of the bed and leaning across. Above the doorway, there was a shelf that held miscellaneous boxes and things that seemed mysterious to me. I often dreamt of it as a passageway or portal. I think that notion went far back into my pre-verbal days. </p><p>Being unlined, the walls of the room were pimply grey asbestos. Beside the wall joist that was halfway along the bed, there was a hole that had, possibly, been punched or kicked in at some stage. The window consisted of mottled glass louvres, and outside the window was the crimson-leaved plum tree, though it never did produce plums, so it may not have been a plum tree at all.</p><p>So, it was at the age of seven that I would lean across that abyss, pushing down the letters of the ancient typewriter with great force, teaching myself how to use caps and how to go down to the next line, how to indent, and how to go from red ink to black, that I wrote my first short story entitled "How the Red Sea Got Its Name". It was a Biblical kind of story, gory and prophetic. Likewise, my first poem, "The Weeping Willow", was very earnest. "As I watch you, weeping willow, your branches hand down straight; they fall to make a pillow for the man who opened Heaven's Gate"...I took that poem to school and my teacher read it out. At that age, I was oblivious to my peers' hatred.</p><p>And so it was at that age that I started to think of myself as a writer. In high school, my English teacher referred to me as "the Professor". I was deep and introverted. I got to read the part of Laura when we studied "The Glass Menagerie". It was my use of language and my depth that made me special, and that little kernel of the extraordinary planted itself firmly in my self-concept.</p><p>It was just like a religion! I see that now! Writing would be the means to my salvation...my immortality. Every rejection letter would be the lash of the torturer...every success of other, less thoughtful writers, my Crown of Thorns. Perhaps it was merely age, or the fact that a close friend had left a visible cult, that I started to see the reality of "the literary world". <i>How did I ever fall for such a crock?</i> I asked myself. </p><p>I did not like the person that literature turned me into. I did not like the bitterness and rage I felt when I realised the feet of clay of the literary world. I started scrolling past online news of others' success. I glowered at authors spouting tired cliches on arts programs. I saw how being an ex-writer was not unlike being an ex-Jehovah's Witness. I realised how religious trauma might expand to include the trauma of aspirant authors in the DMI. </p><p>Perhaps I exaggerate. </p><p>I decided, about a year ago, to de-tox from the Cult of Literature. I hope I have regained some perspective. Perhaps I feel a little less wounded. The struggle continues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1g2iCEd5vtqpvwJONAstOUn9XsMiWrr9TeT5GeDRNDflJLNFwgp3Rgn_gZlonpmWoeNaMsS0yWxmsdLNPSWa-HWWJJMwTJRCcEDVa_xu0qiZpxMC3Bo4Sz9DY8bL6TqxF9it9pVFki01_JMywmCiJSDXdwN7kI56pgvzM6aqt4xY1RamTsDO8N9lAXA/s2000/cult.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="2000" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1g2iCEd5vtqpvwJONAstOUn9XsMiWrr9TeT5GeDRNDflJLNFwgp3Rgn_gZlonpmWoeNaMsS0yWxmsdLNPSWa-HWWJJMwTJRCcEDVa_xu0qiZpxMC3Bo4Sz9DY8bL6TqxF9it9pVFki01_JMywmCiJSDXdwN7kI56pgvzM6aqt4xY1RamTsDO8N9lAXA/s320/cult.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-23032403905505834592021-12-06T14:06:00.000-08:002021-12-06T14:06:33.080-08:00The Land at the Middle of Everything<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMTFJrUogfDg4cutfvQSdlaZqyZHI_Tg6YcC_FuyTWJRYn63-H8h5tWI7IdNmrWXfB61gwUasG5xk5u5GVnOZOymhgdmLPxkJNy_GgUAx8Oh840Z9dWHM64BB5HpDLWFGxqPuUiP5k04K/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="542" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMTFJrUogfDg4cutfvQSdlaZqyZHI_Tg6YcC_FuyTWJRYn63-H8h5tWI7IdNmrWXfB61gwUasG5xk5u5GVnOZOymhgdmLPxkJNy_GgUAx8Oh840Z9dWHM64BB5HpDLWFGxqPuUiP5k04K/" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">-Adam and Eve ~circa 1800</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></b></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I clearly remember being a six-year-old in Mrs Rourke’s Grade
One class at St Pat’s convent school in Blacktown. We were afraid of Mrs
Rourke. She wore her white hair in a French roll, and was given to shouting at
the top of her lungs, at which unpredictable behaviour my stomach would do
somersaults. I recall Mrs Rourke’s religion classes, which all seemed to centre
around the Garden of Eden and Original Sin. There was a sequence to our teacher’s
classes: she would draw a large circle on the blackboard and tell us that it
was the world. She would then draw two stick-figures that, we were told, were
Adam and Eve. Between Adam and Eve there would be a tree, with a snake coiled
around its trunk and one apple.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I loved gardens. My grandmother, Biddy, had a wild, wild
garden with a winding path meandering through it and down to a fowl-yard. The
soil smelt of old tea-leaves and earthworms. The slab of dark stone that was
the back step was worn down in the middle. The shade at the back of the house
was dense and cold. The bush that spilt out of Galston Gorge, where my mother
played as a child, clambered right up to the end of the street. You could smell
its sweetness in the sunshine, along with Uncle Wally’s rum tobacco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I liked the idea of the Garden of Eden, and I was not the
first to do so. We know that the idea of “paradise” goes right back to the
Sumerians, who came from Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
We learnt about that in our first year of high school. A hippy teacher called
Dawn Tracy taught us about those two rivers, and I had no clue why I should
care. Turns out those two rivers flow through western Asia and through all the
countries we think of when we talk about the Middle East. It was the
“birthplace” of our civilization, or so they say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Sumerians believed that the gods lived in a fertile
valley of flowers, trees, animals and precious stones. Why wouldn’t they? If
you lived in a desert, you too would imagine a fertile and regularly-watered
heaven. One of the first stories ever written down, and the Sumerians had the
oldest known system of writing, was about a man called Gilgamesh who journeyed
to find a hero called <i>Utnapishtim</i>,
who had saved his family and animals by building a big boat, when the gods
decided to send a flood in retribution for human misdeeds. There, in the garden
where Utnapishtim lived, Gilgamesh discovered the secret to eternal life. That story
was written about 5,000 years ago, well after the mythical “event” was supposed
to have taken place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The image of a paradise where the gods lived removed from
humankind was basic to Zoroastrianism and to the early Hebrews, and thus to the
three major world religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. The symbolism is
to be found across cultures, to such an extent that, over the centuries,
beliefs about the physical existence of such a real place have developed.
Indeed, the beliefs of the cult that we casually refer to as “Flat Earthers”
are derived from the notion that the existence of such a place has been hidden
from us by worldwide conspirators. <i>Shambhala</i>,
<i>Shangri La</i> and other names have been
bestowed on this place of peace, innocence and immortality. Some latter day explorers
believed it to be hidden in the Himalayas, others somewhere in the Middle East,
and yet others are convinced that it is concealed at the North Pole. It was the
North Pole image and mythology of a place known as “Meru” that drew my attention,
since the simplicity of the symbolism provoked me to take an imaginative leap
of my own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6dlyPuLSyotf3Ks3ANCMqU9qMCUTiutdRqtKwcmuh-QVC_Aeca1KZbqaS915VxcoS6Tcgs7ltFoAoum5ldVDY0Ac8JbSkmiNeweEDT4bgx8n8c741Y9MVANuWE9-5g85sfuubSAh5On4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="380" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6dlyPuLSyotf3Ks3ANCMqU9qMCUTiutdRqtKwcmuh-QVC_Aeca1KZbqaS915VxcoS6Tcgs7ltFoAoum5ldVDY0Ac8JbSkmiNeweEDT4bgx8n8c741Y9MVANuWE9-5g85sfuubSAh5On4/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCmIaOYCIpdTs-_Kcmg3x3Joi_xk3vFtLfvVJbILCDCDeYldJR1FThuF4OsTvFo8rczLmfTA9k56W3BUBu0gs2jNi3dxFqABN7NfqyUkIOEkNePtD-qe-sSXLZslSrYxNtdm_u1zAX79n/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="402" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCmIaOYCIpdTs-_Kcmg3x3Joi_xk3vFtLfvVJbILCDCDeYldJR1FThuF4OsTvFo8rczLmfTA9k56W3BUBu0gs2jNi3dxFqABN7NfqyUkIOEkNePtD-qe-sSXLZslSrYxNtdm_u1zAX79n/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Across cultures, the images of Paradise, Eden or Meru share
common characteristics. At the centre of the earth, there is a World Tree (such
as the Scandinavian “Tree of Life” or <i>Yggdrasil</i>),
often growing out of a central mountain. The roots of the tree reach down into
the earth. The trunk of the tree creates the axis around which the world turns.
The branches of the tree reach upwards to the place where the ancestors live.
Four rivers circle the central mountain, and four islands or continents are
laid out around it. At the perimeter of the island continents, there is a
circular wall of mountains that encloses the hidden land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Genesis, the first book of the Bible’s Old Testament, Adam
and Eve live in the Garden of Eden until expelled by Yahweh- </span><span style="background: #F8F9FA; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 21.0pt; line-height: 150%;">יהוה </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> -for taking the “fruit
of the tree of knowledge” from the one forbidden tree. In other paradise
mythologies, mankind is, likewise, exiled from the garden and made aware of
evil, is suddenly “made” mortal, and is doomed to experience suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Literal interpreters of the Eden-Meru story believe that the
land exists in a physical form, but is somehow hidden by geography, conspiracy,
or the state of the explorer’s soul when he/she goes searching for it. However,
there are many who look on the mythology as symbolic of man’s search for peace
and wisdom. My own theory, however, is somewhere in between, as I do believe
that Eden-Meru is a real and physical “place”, but not in the way readers might
think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My own proposition is that Paradise or Eden-Meru represents
the human brain and its capacity for transcendence, and that the fall from
paradise is the history of mankind’s evolution (macro) reflected in the
development of the foetus (micro), in particular. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/Writing/Journalism/The%20Land%20at%20the%20Middle%20of%20Everything%20Calibre%20Prize.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></b></span></a><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The central mountain is surrounded by open water, and then further out by
four large islands that form a ring around the Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> As we all know, the
brain and spinal cord are surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid
provides a stable environment for delicate neurological structures against the
forces of gravity and sudden acceleration and deceleration (speeding up,
changing direction and slowing down). Cerebrospinal fluid also carries
nutrients to the brain and takes waste away. It is vital in the development of
the foetal brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are four surrounding island continents that have high mountains
along their southern </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[outer]<b> rims… <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The cerebral cortex is divided into <i>four sections</i>, called "lobes": the frontal lobe, parietal
lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe. The frontal lobe is important for thinking
and control of voluntary movement or activity. The parietal lobe processes sensory
input, while the occipital lobe is primarily responsible for vision.</span> <span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">temporal
lobe</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> is the part of the brain in charge of memory
storage, the process of hearing sounds, visual recognition of faces and
objects, and the use of language.</span> “<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily
designated "neocortex," is one of the hallmarks of mammalian
evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest
structural diversity in the human brain”. -</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jones, Edward G., Peters, Alan (Eds.) Cerebral Cortex, Comparative
Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In humans, the skull (“the outer rim”) is supported by the
highest vertebra, called the atlas, permitting a nodding motion. The atlas
turns on the next-lower vertebra, the axis, to allow for side-to-side motion. The
human cranium, the part that contains the brain, is globe-shaped and relatively
large in comparison with the face. In most other animals, the facial portion of
the skull, including the upper teeth and the nose, is larger than the cranium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Already, we can see a picture building up, layer upon layer. The
subconscious metaphor of an Eden, represented by the complex geography of <i>the world at the centre of everything</i>, may
be a modern human memory of its own evolution and divergence from non-human
primates. As early humans became more “human”, was there a species memory of primate
origins that was passed down through myth?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[…]‘thinking
with imagery’ and even ‘thinking with the body’ must have preceded language by
hundreds of thousands of years. It is part of our mammalian inheritance to
read, store and retrieve emotionally coded representations of the world, and we
do this via conditioned associations</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">…-</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stephen
T Asma, ‘The Evolution of Imagination’</span>
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font:- https://rgdn.info/en/mirovaya_gora._v_mifah_i_legandah_mira The World
Mountain – Mount Meru in myths and legends of peoples of the world, prepared by
“Arbat” (Russia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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a notion of his interior body-schema, but pre-literate cultures have been
drawing “x-ray” interior maps for millennia. </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">X-ray art can be seen in the </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Mesolithic"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">Mesolithic</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (“middle” “stone”) art of
northern Europe, as well as in Siberia,
the </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Arctic-Circle"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">Arctic Circle</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/North-America"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">North America</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, West Papua, </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Ireland-island-Papua-New-Guinea"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">New Ireland</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, India, and Malaysia. It is well-known from the </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-Aboriginal"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">Aboriginal</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/rock-art"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">rock art</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and bark paintings of </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Arnhem-Land"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">Arnhem Land</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. X-ray art is always related
to the sacred and ceremonial. It represents the unseen, and is, therefore,
numinous or “otherworldly”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEuHrZ5fv98okcZwdw34Al6jPUJJ21Ahs7neb85EZzLMDnuWI9UfEL_2FJYSWXch5CgZSinhExp44i8FA9D6I1sGUZUPdZKiGrAJDKaqUpDoN79B8DHTeV6qUfTQRU7TH5u1QMDj05u1K/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="288" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEuHrZ5fv98okcZwdw34Al6jPUJJ21Ahs7neb85EZzLMDnuWI9UfEL_2FJYSWXch5CgZSinhExp44i8FA9D6I1sGUZUPdZKiGrAJDKaqUpDoN79B8DHTeV6qUfTQRU7TH5u1QMDj05u1K/" width="142" />The Human Cranium</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEuHrZ5fv98okcZwdw34Al6jPUJJ21Ahs7neb85EZzLMDnuWI9UfEL_2FJYSWXch5CgZSinhExp44i8FA9D6I1sGUZUPdZKiGrAJDKaqUpDoN79B8DHTeV6qUfTQRU7TH5u1QMDj05u1K/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="294" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhBU4Gp4zk-PTiHO96mISz037Jan2hkIenCWbrAXsPJKQVuE8Jy1vIn_rCjhc2VIRY5wW3yuWLQ-xWFceWpiENZQrI4tPAwUvvWdp3u6iRH_ewA57h-XtG5w-v3xqxpE_braYNiZBC_XV/" width="194" /></div></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">-Meru and Kailasa, antique diagram</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEuHrZ5fv98okcZwdw34Al6jPUJJ21Ahs7neb85EZzLMDnuWI9UfEL_2FJYSWXch5CgZSinhExp44i8FA9D6I1sGUZUPdZKiGrAJDKaqUpDoN79B8DHTeV6qUfTQRU7TH5u1QMDj05u1K/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">…this mountain (Meru) was made of lodestone, and was the source of the
earth’s magnetic field. For some creatures, the magnetic field that hugs our
planet serves as a compass for navigation or orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It has always been suspected, but a new study has proven,
that humans can sense the earth's magnetic field. The study, published in the
journal <i>eNeuro</i>, provides the first
direct evidence, from brain scans, that humans can sense electro-magnetic
fields, probably through magnetic particles in the brain. Literature about
standing stones and megaliths has, in the past, suggested this sense, that, in
modern times, may be drowned out by the busy electro-magnetic stimulation (radio
waves, micro-waves etc.) present in modern life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These islands are separated by four large inward-flowing rivers, which
are aligned as if to the four points of the compass– though of course there is
no north, east, or west at the North Pole: <i>every
direction from this centre is south.</i></span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> [my italics]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The brain has a dense blood supply. Arterial blood supply to
the human brain consists of two pairs of large arteries, the right and left
internal carotid and the right and left vertebral arteries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_CRJHhusllNTvLqPLlE-TsnZdYl7gnLXTbLxQ19E9Pn6zMF3WL61AdhVhZVpOq_qmUXuogaZwjC4CFj6uyZ1l7vdWEMPcglxoPTQ-G-kK-p77iwy-geZYkQGG5BbPDHB462toWYQPilG/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="607" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_CRJHhusllNTvLqPLlE-TsnZdYl7gnLXTbLxQ19E9Pn6zMF3WL61AdhVhZVpOq_qmUXuogaZwjC4CFj6uyZ1l7vdWEMPcglxoPTQ-G-kK-p77iwy-geZYkQGG5BbPDHB462toWYQPilG/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqB3rGh2TxDPB8NFFtw-T0yFf30Che4IuLDikrSGvYllD3QDlyrRDUJqcoAIXvOXXYd9gjFtsOimZ9q_I_ntTCZOQyqopZYdJKSs_285spbWmD9SWXANCgQKNOjWuOH4x6KI5GIOWhRcj/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="243" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqB3rGh2TxDPB8NFFtw-T0yFf30Che4IuLDikrSGvYllD3QDlyrRDUJqcoAIXvOXXYd9gjFtsOimZ9q_I_ntTCZOQyqopZYdJKSs_285spbWmD9SWXANCgQKNOjWuOH4x6KI5GIOWhRcj/" width="260" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The other name of the Meru is <i>Jayadhara</i>, which means “Jaya support”, or the structure that
supports the sun. Throughout human history, and in many cultures, there has
been an analogy drawn between the land of the gods in the sky, and the <i>solar star, </i>or sun. In Indian cosmology,
Mount Meru is the axis of the earth, around which the stars revolve, and above which
the sun shines. Continuing the conceit, we come to the zenith of the nervous
system: the pineal gland. This pea-sized, <i>pine-cone-shaped</i>
gland is located in the middle of the brain. “Once a revered tool of seers and
mystics, it’s now largely dormant, its divine purpose lost over the ages. It’s
the organ of supreme universal connection and its significance appears in every
culture throughout the world” (from <i>Gaia</i>,
an online blog).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In some species of amphibians and reptiles, the pineal gland
is a light-sensing organ, known as the parietal eye, and is also called the
third eye. René Descartes believed the human pineal gland to be the
"principal seat of the soul". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This great spaceship, suspended above our heads like a Christmas ball… A
big transparent ball that we almost expect to see turn to rain the snow on the
roof of the world of the gods.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_rfE1659NXP34x8WpA5BHVKGSv7W3cMzynMy0tDoeG0eBVqpzctHAy_gRWOO9cXz8rqZK9dP776L5-fvRkAkr8ciLBvi9Xx3bblY_dge5tv-fIXBdbMaPmPlx4GlRSPPUsqHHdsKJfNX/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="260" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_rfE1659NXP34x8WpA5BHVKGSv7W3cMzynMy0tDoeG0eBVqpzctHAy_gRWOO9cXz8rqZK9dP776L5-fvRkAkr8ciLBvi9Xx3bblY_dge5tv-fIXBdbMaPmPlx4GlRSPPUsqHHdsKJfNX/" width="290" /></a></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUCUI8irH4i27i7WzLC7ALvVZbxzIoRHOZlhOuVitO3q4xgoXqk_eMmzMpsEMKGcgikklfxtBAH316PzC3ITG64N0VnUIm7mTy_TnONFTkmmKzgnKLE2yAIb0F7dxL0zdQvkCjtEzik1L/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="220" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUCUI8irH4i27i7WzLC7ALvVZbxzIoRHOZlhOuVitO3q4xgoXqk_eMmzMpsEMKGcgikklfxtBAH316PzC3ITG64N0VnUIm7mTy_TnONFTkmmKzgnKLE2yAIb0F7dxL0zdQvkCjtEzik1L/" width="151" /></a></div><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">People who claim to have the capacity to “see” with their
third eyes are sometimes known as <i>seers</i>.
Spiritual traditions from India refer to the third eye as the <i>ajna</i> (or brow) <i>chakra</i>. The third eye refers to the gate that leads to inner realms
and spaces of higher consciousness. It is often associated with mystic
experiences such as religious visions, clairvoyance, observation of the chakras,
the ability to perceive auras, precognition, and out-of-body experiences, such
as astral travel and lucid dreaming. Buddhists regard the third eye as the
"eye of consciousness". <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The human spine has evolved a number of adaptions that help it handle
upright walking, such as its typical S shaped curvature.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It hardly needs to be pointed out that one of the major
evolutionary steps in the journey to becoming modern humans was the development
of an upright posture, or <i>bipedalism</i>.
Perhaps the mythical snake or serpent in Christian mythology (referring to a
paradise that we know as Eden) was a reference to the newly-evolved s-shaped
spine? If you recall Genesis, you may remember the story that Eve was cursed
with delivering her offspring in pain and anguish thenceforth, after having
eaten from the Tree of Knowledge. ‘To the woman he said, "I will make your
pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to
children”. (Genesis 3:6). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[…] such a pelvic form had profound obstetrical consequences for
australopithecines, resulting either in a different mechanism of birth from
either later humans or nonhuman primates </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Tague and Lovejoy)<b> or in degree of difficulty during labour </b>(Berge et al)<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (-Yearbook of Physical Anthropology [Vol. 35,
1992)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="249" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8X93O7e4FKVeeQQmcYPeCbaRLueehZ39avGs74RSDxMDvrgEVDsT_sMt4lCZlyoiz213-ym5xP-BUpsTOefkAPUpuqxiFrWL7jVCYJVMKQt1z4KDrN6eXlgWW1M7FObO0nC8iqIRAdOU6/" width="180" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhS9Th9KmN5M-iSwwe1Oq9bSx-XFjw6am-bNwSjgQIcrsF2S9c1qC-Ermc5P0wba8-mpJb_Q9Bjnq3zZqK8BKeQMjjs0hBUJsR_aHkaNhVe4NdQjanAx_kHROkiQt6cVxlTn9RO1aPeZnV/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="241" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhS9Th9KmN5M-iSwwe1Oq9bSx-XFjw6am-bNwSjgQIcrsF2S9c1qC-Ermc5P0wba8-mpJb_Q9Bjnq3zZqK8BKeQMjjs0hBUJsR_aHkaNhVe4NdQjanAx_kHROkiQt6cVxlTn9RO1aPeZnV/" width="168" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why did Mrs Rourke, circa 1960, draw the tree at the centre
of her simplistic earth illustration? The human nervous system- that is, the
structures in the brain combined with the spinal cord and motor and sensory
nerves- can be seen to look like <i>Yggdrasil</i>,
the giant ash tree of Scandinavian myth, the axis of the world, and recognised as the Tree of Life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">…floors or terraces </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[in the World Tree]<b> are identified
with “heavens” or cosmic levels […] By climbing them, the pilgrim approaches
the Center </b>[sic] <b>of the World and,
on the upper terrace, he enters the “pure sphere”.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">…it is on the loftiest mountain plateau of the Inner Continent, several
thousand feet higher than any portion of the surrounding country. It is the
most beautiful place I have ever beheld in all my travels. In this elevated garden
all manner of fruits, vines, shrubs, trees, and flowers grow in riotous
profusion…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(- Willis George Emerson, “The Smoky
God”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="275" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFSavrYkEJmSRlSuarIk_AnVaE7gU4RPRBk9n6EXT-3XCVZzQVlYM3A4ib-MoqvKphh95WFzsA8PqGD__MNhrllLFsv5_O5der_ZVyQAHIdNAZE6cCexL4TUMkpedmXA1IsfnxsN_7_Db/" width="159" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ71D4dUSd7GJ7VEXxK0VtfzwLpbx6L87HXSCKdqIM0U3-1gqltGJaDRE-9xpcGX8T94wP3XUD4vDmiUN69cYlTXACGqaJ2zqscnSsi4eoJddprN7Hxx6DYth6JfK8DpoR_fS6Vpt2dXRA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="289" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ71D4dUSd7GJ7VEXxK0VtfzwLpbx6L87HXSCKdqIM0U3-1gqltGJaDRE-9xpcGX8T94wP3XUD4vDmiUN69cYlTXACGqaJ2zqscnSsi4eoJddprN7Hxx6DYth6JfK8DpoR_fS6Vpt2dXRA/" width="170" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The World Mountain is located in the centre of the universe, with stars,
planets and many suns revolving around it. There are thirty-three gods who
communicate with each other there.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The vertebral column usually consists of <i>33 vertebrae</i>. A spinal nerve carries motor, sensory, and autonomic
signals between the spinal cord and the body. <i>In the human body there are 31 pairs of spinal nerves, </i>one on each
side of the vertebral column. Neurons (or nerve endings) communicate with one
another by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and
glutamate, into the small space between two neurons. Glutamate is the major
"excitatory" neurotransmitter in the brain, which means that it helps
to activate neurons and other brain cells. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At this stage of the mystical experience, it is the abundance of dopamine
in the brain that fills the person with unspoken satisfaction. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[…] <b>There, humans exhibit differences in gene expression when compared to
the other primates.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Specifically, the researchers’ results showed that interneurons
expressing genes that code for dopamine synthesis are present in humans’
striata but not in non-humans. This, they say, is part of what makes human
brains uniquely human.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> -</span> Stav Dimitropoulos, <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How Does Neuroscience Explain Spiritual and Religious Experiences? (blog)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the Judeo-Christian scriptures, Adam and Eve are told by
Yahweh that they may eat anything in the Garden of Eden, except “the fruit of
the tree of knowledge”. There are various theories about what this “fruit”
might have been. Predictably, there are those who assume that, because it was
Eve who tempted Adam, the fruit was sexual. Others construe the imagery as
meaning that man and woman have created their own downfall through science and
technology. But what if the sanction against the fruit was not primarily about
the actual fruit, but the act of <i>reaching
up for it</i>? Does the narrative refer to the transition to becoming upright
human animals? Is the species memory of “being cast out of Paradise” a memory
of human life before mankind became erect?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"[…] the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they
were naked."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">– Genesis 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What could the myth mean by “naked”. Does it mean “hairless”,
as opposed to having an overall covering of hair, as in other primates?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our sweaty hairlessness, the theory goes, allowed us to hunt for longer,
chasing nutritious large game that eventually helped give us the energy we
needed to fuel growing brains.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">-<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Melissa Hogenboom, earth (BBC
webpage).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Interestingly, the eating of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge, the need to cover themselves, and the loss of the close relationship
with other animals in the Garden of Eden were all connected events in the Old
Testament. Until they were cast out of Paradise, Adam and Eve were companions
of all the animals, and they could even speak to each other. What happened to
turn man against his companions, and instil the fear of man in those relatives
of his? Was man cast out of paradise at the point at which he evolved beyond
the vegetarian diet of earlier primates? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The human gut consists mainly of the small intestines, which are
responsible for the rapid breakdown of proteins and absorption of nutrients.
The ape's gut is primarily colon, which indicates a vegetarian diet. This
structural difference supports the hunting hypothesis in being an evolutionary
branching point between modern humans and modern primates. Buss also cites
human teeth in that fossilized human teeth have a thin enamel coating with very
little heavy wear and tear that would result from a plant diet. The absence of
thick enamel also indicates that historically humans have maintained a
meat-heavy diet. Buss notes that the bones of animals </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[that]<b> human ancestors killed found at Olduvai Gorge have cut marks at
strategic points on the bones that indicate tool usage and provide evidence for
ancestral butchers. </b>– wikipedia, citing Buss, David (1999).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is that other troubling and incongruous assertion in
Genesis: was Eve created from Adam’s rib? Why would ribs be important in this
memory of the evolutionary watershed that is the development of an upright
posture? Like every other part of this creation myth, the story of Adam’s rib
is possibly a species memory of the evolution of the bipedal human’s ribcage,
as opposed to the hominids who preceded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJQ_z4HQJJg8ZtWGZryoH83OJtdsqLoCbvmYSCrkUe41Wy4W7fEaeyD6VE-7yDhs3X_lq36u2glJB7eecMYpt90-khaXJUpZ1jzU7ujGIaTGhFbgYSppZdBvmJETpjK7XG1CvWX3mpjVS/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="322" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJQ_z4HQJJg8ZtWGZryoH83OJtdsqLoCbvmYSCrkUe41Wy4W7fEaeyD6VE-7yDhs3X_lq36u2glJB7eecMYpt90-khaXJUpZ1jzU7ujGIaTGhFbgYSppZdBvmJETpjK7XG1CvWX3mpjVS/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[…] humans and other great apes differ in the relative mediolateral
dimensions of the upper and lower ribs, which leads to a difference in the
overall contour of the rib cage (barrel-shaped in humans, conical or
funnel-shaped in the great apes, as seen in anterior view). […] The overall
shape of the hominoid thorax may be an adaptation that serves to better
dissipate tensile forces in the body during under-branch suspensory behaviours.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(-<b> </b>Centre for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny, MOCA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet another change brought about by the evolution to
bipedalism would have been related to the fact that early humans experienced
changes in their vestibular systems. The vestibular system in a modern human is
the sense that maintains the upright positioning of the head and neck, and it
originates in the labyrinths in the inner ear. Thus, once again, reaching up
for the fruit may have been more significant than the fruit, itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[…] the evolution of large vertical canals accompanied the evolution of
bipedalism, suggesting that the anterior and posterior canals are important for
bipedal balance.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">- Brian L. Day and Richard C.
Fitzpatrick, Cell Press<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, there is that other issue that I have not yet mentioned,
but that cannot be ignored, and that is the fact that, in Genesis, it was Eve
who “tempted” Adam to eat of the fruit that would lead them to be cast out from
the garden. Resulting from this action, all daughters of Eve would be subjected
to pain in childbirth, women would be dominated by men (because societies would
be hunter-based), son would murder son (competition and territoriality), and
mankind would be born with the stain of the “original sin” (evolutionary step)
henceforth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eve?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[Sexual]<b> Selection, one may say with some confidence, has shaped the evolution
of the human mitochondrial genome. This miniscule piece of genetic information
has already been a key part of the study of human evolution and population
dispersal, and it seems likely to continue playing an important role as we
tease out the role of selection. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(- Elson, Turnbull and Howell,
American Journal of Human Genetics)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Darwin correctly realized that sexual selection could be
mediated by male–male combat or by <i>a
female's choice of attractive males</i> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[my Italics]<b>. His original definition of sexual selection, which appeared in </b></span><em><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Origin of Species</span></b></em><b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, appears to
emphasize male–male combat [i.e., “a struggle between the males for possession
of the females” but even then he was clearly aware of female choice. </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(-</span><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and</span><span class="highwire-citation-author"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
Ratterman, </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Mate choice and sexual selection:
What have we learned since Darwin?)</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In humans, as in most multicellular organisms, mitochondrial DNA is
inherited only from the mother's ovum. (</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">- Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In other words, it was Eve’s mitochondrial DNA that not only
was one of the main sources of genetic divergence through her sexual selection
of a mate, but it was through Eve that the changes caused by that divergence
continued on down through the generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is fair to propose that, according to our species memory
of being “cast out of Paradise”, we have inherited a nostalgia for the way we
were before we evolved into an upright species, and that the blame is put on
the female/mother for her supreme role in selection of a male partner, and her
crucial place in the increments of evolution, through her mitochondria.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We have established, hypothetically, that the fall from
Paradise was a species memory of the evolutionary step that encompassed
achieving upright posture, losing body hair and becoming better hunters, but
what does that have to do with the seat of Paradise being the human brain and
spinal cord. As I mentioned, briefly, at the beginning, this narrative is about
the evolution of mankind (the macro narrative) and the evolution of the foetus
(micro). At the intersection of the two, I believe, is the germ of the
archetype of Paradise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Watching human baby brains grow is a little like watching evolution in
action. A new study shows the human brain regions that expand the most during
infancy and childhood are the same parts that expanded the most during
evolution as humans diverged from other primates. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">– Livescience (blog)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Like a fractal, the evolution of the foetal brain contains
within it the story of human evolution. It is possible that, within our
nostalgia for a time before we were upright, there is the sense of loss that
originates in expulsion from the maternal womb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According to legends about the country of Meru, the land
possessed a perfect climate and atmosphere that allowed humans to be fourteen
feet tall and to live for a thousand years. In Genesis, when expelled to the
outer world, Adam and Eve and their descendants were exposed to a vastly
inferior environment wherein they began to age and to become aware of their
mortality. Post-Eden, man is now considered one tenth of what man was in the
Golden Age of humanity “when Gods and men walked and talked together”. If we
accept that the symbolism of Eden/Paradise/Meru may belong to an ancient memory
of the brain and its evolution, we might also consider why it is that the story
of a “fall” or expulsion occurred in this widespread narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As the brain cannot retrieve the data of our foetal state directly, it
will employ a great tool to remind us about our stay inside the womb in order
to relate to a state of total well-beingness </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[sic]<b>, and that
tool is called nostalgia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">-Tom Thomas, Nostalgic (Quora online
forum)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> […] to remember and cherish our
earlier developmental periods as better and blissful. Hence the participant
deity stems from the perfect beginnings before time. The participant religions
anchor their rituals on techniques of “going back”. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">- Shlomo Giora Shoham, The Genesis of
Genesis: The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just as modern man experiences a nostalgia for earlier
evolutionary phases, before bipedalism, he experiences the germ of that
nostalgia in his sense of loss at being expelled from the womb, the original
“Eden”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHSDPDAuFklKpb5ZXfb3G2jwqgaUgXKXZioIGsZQBZ_LGdWx0lS1Z12NAnvtX2C9W97da1kjJcJ1dj1S4oHchXfl-IHoQoCrP9tIUZbuCrUB_L9mwCiiLQWoKigPukVeVCdhTb8RXCNA6/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="218" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHSDPDAuFklKpb5ZXfb3G2jwqgaUgXKXZioIGsZQBZ_LGdWx0lS1Z12NAnvtX2C9W97da1kjJcJ1dj1S4oHchXfl-IHoQoCrP9tIUZbuCrUB_L9mwCiiLQWoKigPukVeVCdhTb8RXCNA6/" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMBWvfhmnkYrE718kCqNbL2znWQmUN9G_ienfoa974Bc0FIxnO0_7jvg6YIFYgRQO3gc74BpzrrKfnTPSRrvadwQvQ6p0f1Knr6oIMU-zummezW4CX2ovlstGgX5vxK9WRUhYdMBF1z6X/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="341" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMBWvfhmnkYrE718kCqNbL2znWQmUN9G_ienfoa974Bc0FIxnO0_7jvg6YIFYgRQO3gc74BpzrrKfnTPSRrvadwQvQ6p0f1Knr6oIMU-zummezW4CX2ovlstGgX5vxK9WRUhYdMBF1z6X/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This place is called by inhabitants the "navel of the earth,"
or "the cradle of the human race." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Vedic India, intuitive knowledge of human consciousness and the
universe was rendered into myths and symbols of profound insight, remarkable
beauty and power, unintelligible to the modern intellect trained in analytic
discourse. It seems likely that they were the result of intuitive faculties of
mind that are no longer well developed or may one day yet become far more
prevalent, as the capacity to read, write and calculate was at one time a rare
endowment and considered a sign of genius.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Garry
Jacobs, A Brief History of Mind and Civilization, Cadmus, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The image of “Paradise/Eden/Meru” that has remained vital
throughout modern human history and mythology may be a pre-verbal schema of the
brain and spinal cord, representing a nostalgia for the innocence of
pre-bipedal hominids and, simultaneously, of the developing foetus, which is,
in itself, the evolution of modern man on an individual scale. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[…]there are deep embodied metaphorical structures within language
itself, and meaning is rooted in the body (not the head).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rather than being based in words, meaning stems from the actions
associated with a perception or image. Even when seemingly neutral lexical
terms are processed by our brains, we find a deeper simulation system of
images. […]It is possible that Homo sapiens of 40,000 years ago were
graphically literate before they were verbally literate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(- Stephen T Asma, ‘The Evolution of
Imagination’ (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why attempt to decode a rich mythology, such as the
all-pervasive symbolism of “Paradise”, and turn it into some kind of mundane
analysis of the human brain and the story of foetal expulsion from the womb? It
is only as a 21<sup>st</sup> Century human that we can look on the mysteries of
the human brain, of foetal development and evolution as mundane. Modern science
is a bit like butterfly collecting. By the time you have euthanized your
specimen and pinned it to a corkboard, the butterfly is no longer the
enchanting beast that it once was. Science can make us uninspired, as can that
other party-pooper, organised religion. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How wonderful, indeed, would such a country be: a place of
mystery and wisdom at the heart of everything? And the most wonderful thing of
all…it is a country hidden deep inside our DNA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in
something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken,
tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. In
silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and
undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood on a little lawn
of a marvellous green, set round with Nature's own orchard-trees—crab-apple,
wild cherry, and sloe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music
played to me," whispered</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the Rat, as if in a trance. "Here, in this holy place,
here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">― </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "&quot","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kenneth Grahame, </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1061285"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "&quot", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration-line: none;">The Wind in
the Willows</span></a><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "&quot","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A favourite passage in a favourite book… but a product of its
time, nonetheless, for, is it not <i>Her</i>
that we remember? Is it not the innocent
earth, the untouched “Paradise”, the womb of the archetypal Mother that we long
for? The Greek words <i>nostos</i> (‘return home’) plus <i>algos</i> (‘pain’) are
the root of that bittersweet ache that we mean by “nostalgia”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the telling and infinite re-telling of myths about
“paradises”, humankind has created an unattainable place out of its interior
life: the geography of the brain, spinal cord and nervous system, that, to the
contemporary rationalist, may seem mundane and knowable, but to humans of times
past, represented the most awe-inspiring of mysteries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUp2esxHh9AbkisjRoOQVNAUnAGUy7_-vz1puwDVpc7wqW1Zu7C7lfb1vO_IQ5CJN33XPNt34Vwa8hE6WOVcf74xpvL5nqVu80mSspl8I73vg6lTbsKbDlRZbWbW7ek8BnQDNp3U-AIZp3/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="267" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUp2esxHh9AbkisjRoOQVNAUnAGUy7_-vz1puwDVpc7wqW1Zu7C7lfb1vO_IQ5CJN33XPNt34Vwa8hE6WOVcf74xpvL5nqVu80mSspl8I73vg6lTbsKbDlRZbWbW7ek8BnQDNp3U-AIZp3/" width="185" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">"Plan
of the Brain-Mental Action" Sivartha 1912 Human Mind Antique Book</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></p><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-42789131780921488302021-05-15T03:00:00.003-07:002021-05-15T03:04:43.709-07:00Here I Rest My All - Gedartes<p> <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I included this poem in my book as a response to your poem. Some folks got curious about you and margarete so i showed your book and read your interview online.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDiFetiMUjd7DdV2aGGEyU6ODe1PuHBDFnSX25IoprHflkbKsLSfIBfk2J5Tw6ovZJNBr9n_TXRIMyfiRE-pqQcnUDZvKyzY8nOuBD2yz7oiAtSJdHixn5Qxfdosa01gB3RhLvQhuWGlP/s403/gedartes+poem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="302" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDiFetiMUjd7DdV2aGGEyU6ODe1PuHBDFnSX25IoprHflkbKsLSfIBfk2J5Tw6ovZJNBr9n_TXRIMyfiRE-pqQcnUDZvKyzY8nOuBD2yz7oiAtSJdHixn5Qxfdosa01gB3RhLvQhuWGlP/w319-h425/gedartes+poem.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrote this poem as an antiphon to your poem at the religious congress in Anaheim. It was raining that night.</span><p></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So first i read tennyson to my family</span></p><div role="row" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; min-width: 0px; order: 0; position: relative; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze e72ty7fz qttc61fc jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 18px 18px 18px 4px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.</div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="pfnyh3mw ewlkfwdl bp9cbjyn j83agx80 qnrpqo6b" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; order: 1; padding-left: 5px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><div aria-label="Message actions" aria-orientation="horizontal" class="mkd47r93 rgmg9uty j83agx80 btwxx1t3 ozy5gqb7" role="menu" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; height: 24px; margin-right: -18px; transition-property: none; width: 77px;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; 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transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ged sent Yesterday at 20:43</div></span><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze jk6sbkaj qttc61fc jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 4px 18px 18px 4px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">I read neruda</div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="pfnyh3mw ewlkfwdl bp9cbjyn j83agx80 qnrpqo6b" style="align-items: center; 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background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 jwdofwj8" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; padding-top: 2px; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; min-width: 0px; order: 0; position: relative; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ged sent Yesterday at 20:43</div></span><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze jk6sbkaj qmr60zad jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 4px 18px 18px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Then your poems</div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505;">Then i showed them the paintings of kandinsky</span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none; background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; display: inline-flex; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none; border: 0px; transition-property: none;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none; background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; display: inline-flex; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none; border: 0px; transition-property: none;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none; background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505; display: inline-flex; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none; border: 0px; transition-property: none;" width="16" /></span><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505;"> and had some comparative amateur analysis with some of your poems.</span></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; color: #050505;"><br /></span></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; 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align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze e72ty7fz qmr60zad jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 18px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">You know what. This world this time is different. I don’t think I’m crazy to say your writing is far superior than the usuals. I personally admire your works more than Nerudas. I love Neruda but sounds cheesy when I translate his poems in Filipino—it’s like watching a telenovela.<span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none; border: 0px; transition-property: none;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🤣" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t52/1/16/1f923.png" style="animation-name: none; 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font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; min-width: 0px; order: 0; position: relative; transition-property: none; white-space: normal;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><h4 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ged sent Yesterday at 21:20</div></h4></span><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze e72ty7fz qmr60zad jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 18px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Subjective yes one may say but hey it’s a matter of aesthetic sense.</div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; 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align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze e72ty7fz qmr60zad jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 18px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">That can happen again and again; but who can argue with the finished work? Looking back at the lives of the greats who weren’t widely acknowledged in their time, you begin to think what’s for the masses. Should I give in and compromise the language? When Beethoven was asked why symphony no.7 is more famous than the 8th, Beethoven said because 8th is better. Don’t know if that is true but same goes with other artists—in music arts literature etc.</div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="pfnyh3mw ewlkfwdl bp9cbjyn j83agx80 qnrpqo6b" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; order: 1; padding-left: 5px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><div aria-label="Message actions" aria-orientation="horizontal" class="mkd47r93 rgmg9uty j83agx80 btwxx1t3 ozy5gqb7" role="menu" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; height: 24px; margin-right: -18px; transition-property: none; width: 77px;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; 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align-items: stretch; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: var(--always-dark-overlay); border-left-color: var(--always-dark-overlay); border-right-color: var(--always-dark-overlay); border-style: solid; border-top-color: var(--always-dark-overlay); border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none; user-select: none; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><div class="hcukyx3x cxmmr5t8 b73ngqbp rgmg9uty j83agx80 s45kfl79 emlxlaya bkmhp75w spb7xbtv pfnyh3mw n5ue3fu6 bp9cbjyn taijpn5t oqcyycmt nhd2j8a9 opvtebq1 l9j0dhe7" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none; border-radius: 50%; cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; height: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; place-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-property: none; width: 24px;"><div class="p1ueia1e pgctjfs5 l8rlqa9s sh06z9xi i2p6rm4e" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; height: 22px; opacity: 0.6; transition-property: none; width: 22px;"><svg height="22px" viewbox="0 0 22 22" width="22px"><circle class="m50y4xls" cx="11" cy="6" r="2" stroke-width="1px"></circle><circle class="m50y4xls" cx="11" cy="11" r="2" stroke-width="1px"></circle><circle class="m50y4xls" cx="11" cy="16" r="2" stroke-width="1px"></circle></svg></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="h9e7qa53 rj1gh0hx buofh1pr" style="animation-name: none; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; order: 2; transition-property: none;"></div><div class="j83agx80 aovydwv3 rl25f0pe iyic8zgw" data-testid="messenger_delivery_status" id="jsc_c_sv" style="align-items: flex-end; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; font-family: inherit; order: 3; transition-property: none;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="pfnyh3mw pgctjfs5" style="animation-name: none; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none; width: 22px;" tabindex="0"></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g5ia77u1 jwdofwj8 pby63qed" data-testid="outgoing_group" style="animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; transition-property: none;"><div data-testid="mwchat_outgoing_row" role="row" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 r8blr3vg" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; padding-bottom: 2px; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t rj1gh0hx buofh1pr" style="animation-name: none; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; order: 0; transition-property: none;"></div><div class="h9e7qa53 l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; min-width: 0px; order: 2; position: relative; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><h4 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">You sent Yesterday at 21:26</div></h4></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="j83agx80 jwdofwj8 pby63qed" data-testid="incoming_group" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; transition-property: none;"><div class="pfnyh3mw aovydwv3 j83agx80 h676nmdw oi9244e8 oygrvhab" style="align-items: flex-end; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; transition-property: none;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l9j0dhe7" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; height: 28px; position: relative; transition-property: none; width: 28px;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="rj1gh0hx buofh1pr hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; min-width: 0px; transition-property: none;"><div role="row" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; min-width: 0px; order: 0; position: relative; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><h4 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ged sent Yesterday at 21:28</div></h4></span><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; 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position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">When I read your book I thought I was in a time machine or inside an old camera.</div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="pfnyh3mw ewlkfwdl bp9cbjyn j83agx80 qnrpqo6b" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; order: 1; padding-left: 5px; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="menu" aria-label="Message actions" class="oajrlxb2 gs1a9yip g5ia77u1 mtkw9kbi tlpljxtp qensuy8j ppp5ayq2 goun2846 ccm00jje s44p3ltw mk2mc5f4 rt8b4zig n8ej3o3l agehan2d sk4xxmp2 rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 j83agx80 mg4g778l btwxx1t3 pfnyh3mw p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 ozy5gqb7 oygrvhab hcukyx3x tgvbjcpo hpfvmrgz jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso l9j0dhe7 i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of du4w35lb lzcic4wl abiwlrkh p8dawk7l mkd47r93 rgmg9uty" role="button" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: none; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="h9e7qa53 rj1gh0hx buofh1pr" style="animation-name: none; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; order: 2; transition-property: none;"></div><div class="j83agx80 aovydwv3 rl25f0pe iyic8zgw" data-testid="messenger_delivery_status" id="jsc_c_t0" style="align-items: flex-end; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; font-family: inherit; order: 3; transition-property: none;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="pfnyh3mw pgctjfs5" style="animation-name: none; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none; width: 22px;" tabindex="0"></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div role="row" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><div class="j83agx80 jwdofwj8" style="animation-name: none; display: flex; font-family: inherit; padding-top: 2px; transition-property: none;"><div class="jn8vp64t l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none; min-width: 0px; order: 0; position: relative; transition-property: none; white-space: normal;"><div class="lzcic4wl" data-recover="true" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; outline: none; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="svngc6pa ay7djpcl ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs pmk7jnqg g0qnabr5 rfua0xdk" style="animation-name: none; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; transition-property: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ged sent Yesterday at 21:28</div></span><div class="ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs g5ia77u1 ii04i59q j83agx80 cbu4d94t ll8tlv6m" data-testid="messenger_incoming_text_row" style="align-items: flex-start; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; animation-name: none; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; font-family: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; transition-property: none; width: inherit;"><div class="l60d2q6s d1544ag0 sj5x9vvc tw6a2znq l9j0dhe7 ni8dbmo4 stjgntxs qlfml3jp inkptoze jk6sbkaj qmr60zad jm1wdb64 qv66sw1b ljqsnud1 g6srhlxm odn2s2vf" style="animation-name: none; background-color: var(--wash); border-radius: 4px 18px 18px; color: var(--always-white); font-family: inherit; max-width: 564px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 7px 12px 8px; position: relative; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">A different lens</div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>HERE I REST MY ALL</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>-Gedartes</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>Here I rest my all</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>in some bread</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>across the sacred;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>in some solitudes passing</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>through your skin.</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>Here I rest my heart in midnight rain</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>as you fall asleep;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>your dreams- my songs</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>in ripples and sloping winds;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>your arms- a flock of sheep;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>unfenced;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>like mists in the landscape,</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>like landscapes in the mist;</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>and your eyes closed,</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>and I remain</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>dripping- a phrase</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>of shutters and gutters.</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>Consider this as a prayer,</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>if you must,</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>and I will end it</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b>with a dance.</b></div><div class="oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><b><br /></b></div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="pfnyh3mw ewlkfwdl bp9cbjyn j83agx80 qnrpqo6b" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; order: 1; padding-left: 5px; transition-property: none; 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color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Ganap Na Loob is essentially a poetry book, but it also includes notes and journals about creative and spiritual experiences; dreams and memories; philosophies and theological stirrings. The book posts the question of authentic presencing in the light of never ending events in ordinary time. Through the relational event between the reader and the poem, one will experience each creative moment to contemplate and awaken the inner self in a prayerful atmosphere. Ganap Na Loob, as a method of theology, is an affirmation of God’s spontaneous and creative way of communicating His Divinity and Humanity to each of us towards a deeper love and communion.</span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAxErOjWan3kLG6sji48aKWO0nh6JWV9A2n5q3h2VJJMjy3KlLXyVm_19Me7Y1KIvwBzKZdF-Hn4Q5-jlxsnpyEmVHGI3Ysgyyr_K8V9N0KhhGpZA9O8qjVNjr9m_2hlTxyZxlVN2KMV1/s499/Gedartes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAxErOjWan3kLG6sji48aKWO0nh6JWV9A2n5q3h2VJJMjy3KlLXyVm_19Me7Y1KIvwBzKZdF-Hn4Q5-jlxsnpyEmVHGI3Ysgyyr_K8V9N0KhhGpZA9O8qjVNjr9m_2hlTxyZxlVN2KMV1/s320/Gedartes.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyA62O2KMH9U7PfnytD0OUxIH6ztLOJ-1ShHRws6cexRrnZlaj5ZwhsDusqANvhtoBdvvuyim5u_quXMUuRZCUB4-1O30t0W34GEMnrqF34VLSFzlkKMOm45tqlAT9_zqUznA3T8vSsmMH/s500/Gedartes+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyA62O2KMH9U7PfnytD0OUxIH6ztLOJ-1ShHRws6cexRrnZlaj5ZwhsDusqANvhtoBdvvuyim5u_quXMUuRZCUB4-1O30t0W34GEMnrqF34VLSFzlkKMOm45tqlAT9_zqUznA3T8vSsmMH/s320/Gedartes+1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4klndMTPEHJ5Dmrujp8i6Tso3tubxoyhClY6W5RQbI8ORRL0jtTFcVoqljpBT8lEKCoGYl9eL1LMYTfy4G1P4Mx8lho79KixpVrugWy4xv4JNgwX3FqVtulVndQ0ZpziQQhqFz7c5t8nL/s900/Gedartes+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4klndMTPEHJ5Dmrujp8i6Tso3tubxoyhClY6W5RQbI8ORRL0jtTFcVoqljpBT8lEKCoGYl9eL1LMYTfy4G1P4Mx8lho79KixpVrugWy4xv4JNgwX3FqVtulVndQ0ZpziQQhqFz7c5t8nL/s320/Gedartes+2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-70068443096236093942021-04-24T14:03:00.001-07:002021-04-24T14:03:09.135-07:00Bird Fanciers' Lung...<p> </p><span class="fontstyle0">The doctors of Luckycola were overrun with nervous mothers and their asthmatic school children, their breathing thinned and made ragged by the fine feathers that fell hourly, forming<br />drifts of down against buildings and light-posts. That winter,<br />when thousands of elderly men and women succumbed to a<br />pernicious type of pneumonia, the crisis was attributed to a rare<br />respiratory condition, known euphemistically to specialists as<br />Bird Fanciers’ Lung.</span><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUyJXzcpt4n1nW0jis6ILJsFB0rAU5XfqK2SVYIL9f2SZjNiTpBxTFxWSK4yhOhx1ZyNaO8rb2ajm-Dfpu9YS5PkP8zs0ol1CfEkN4FeaUdQq8vTJz0zfOvebD8NcO4i7q_4TFnUKLYnr/s259/bird+fanciers+lung.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUyJXzcpt4n1nW0jis6ILJsFB0rAU5XfqK2SVYIL9f2SZjNiTpBxTFxWSK4yhOhx1ZyNaO8rb2ajm-Dfpu9YS5PkP8zs0ol1CfEkN4FeaUdQq8vTJz0zfOvebD8NcO4i7q_4TFnUKLYnr/s0/bird+fanciers+lung.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="fontstyle0">At the height of the pneumonia epidemic, President Ongresowa had stood in a white drift on the steps outside the Sunshine Circus and had spoken to the people of Incognita. It had<br />always been thus, the President had pointed out. The country of<br />Incognita had always been at risk of being over-run by migratory<br />birds. The last of the gaps in the great wall would finally be<br />filled in, he told the people, and a million square metres of<br />flight-proof netting would temporarily protect the eastern seaboard from the plague of predatory birds.</span>
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /></div></div>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-33130099608576396182020-11-03T21:34:00.005-08:002020-11-03T21:35:25.171-08:00WIRTSCHAFTSWUNDER DAY, an excerpt...<p> </p><span class="fontstyle0">The President practiced his speech one last time, while<br />watching his reflection in the double doors that would soon<br />open for him to proceed onto the steps of the Sunshine Circus.<br />Peeping through a gap in the drapes, President Ongresowa saw<br />that the citizens of Luckycola were gathered expectantly in the<br />square. Pulling his stomach in and tightening his belt, he stepped<br />out through the double doors, followed by the Parliamentarians<br />and the upper echelons of the military. He lifted his right arm to<br />quell a wave of murmuring and whispering that suddenly rushed<br />through the crowd.</span>
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div><span class="fontstyle0">‘People of the country of Incognita,’ he began. High above<br />the square, Berisha Begari looked down from his perch two<br />hundred metres above the cupola of the Sunshine Circus.<br />‘People of Incognita,’ the President repeated, suddenly made<br />uneasy by the eerie stillness that now emanated from the </span></div><div><span class="fontstyle0">enormous crowd.<br />‘I am your father,’ the President proceeded, suddenly unable<br />to remember his prepared speech. ‘You are my children, and,<br />like a good father, it is my sacred duty to protect my family<br />from the Outsiders.’<br />The President stopped and waited. Usually, the word ‘Outsiders’ </span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="fontstyle0">was a trigger for uproarious cheering and applause. This</span></div><span class="fontstyle0">year, the President found himself gulping and running a finger<br />around inside his collar, which suddenly felt too tight. The<br />President cleared his throat.<br />‘ . . . from the Outsiders,’ he repeated.<br />At last, someone in the front of the crowd raised an arm, and<br />the President prepared himself for a cry of patriotism and<br />nationalistic punching of the air. However, the cry that issued<br />from the citizen was not </span><span class="fontstyle2">Hurray for the President!</span><span class="fontstyle0">, but a timid<br /></span><span class="fontstyle2">Boo! </span><span class="fontstyle0">that echoed from one side of the square to the other, and<br />was accompanied by the unexpected landing of an ovoid missile<br />at the President’s feet.<br />Before the Riot Police could intervene, an avalanche of offensive </span></div><div><span class="fontstyle0">missiles had been launched from the sleeves and the pockets<br />of the people of Incognita. The crowd surged forward as one,<br />and the Riot Police ordered their Border Monkeys to disperse<br />the yelling and enraged crowd. However, the Border Monkeys<br />would not move, transfixed, as they were, by a white gorilla that<br />had waddled to the steps of the Sunshine Circus and shoved the<br />President out of centre stage.<br />No one knew what language it was that Snowflake the White<br />Gorilla spoke to the Border Monkeys. Some said, later, that he<br />had spoken to them of the dignity and pride in being a wild</span>
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span class="fontstyle0">monkey, and the shame and despair of being man’s servant.<br />Whatever it was that the white gorilla said, it was enough to<br />persuade the Border Monkeys to restrain their partners from<br />intervening in the mêlée. Just when the President thought that<br />the situation could not get worse, two or three hundred Outsiders </span></div><div><span class="fontstyle0">marched on the square, followed by thousands of limping<br />ranks of geese, ducks, hens and turkeys.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3f7g4x2Z67LQVvJQ81aRv_7X25eL1dwrkMAz0_oQfP3VSohMcQfK4QpIrYlQJMZ33eQCL-DHvLwi3G2zrzRYmZSu7ldMjiTQYuWDPn3KxJK9aOcK6E2N6rqv0lPYLAi-9lG0ymIba28y/s2048/trump+with+turkey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3f7g4x2Z67LQVvJQ81aRv_7X25eL1dwrkMAz0_oQfP3VSohMcQfK4QpIrYlQJMZ33eQCL-DHvLwi3G2zrzRYmZSu7ldMjiTQYuWDPn3KxJK9aOcK6E2N6rqv0lPYLAi-9lG0ymIba28y/s320/trump+with+turkey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br /></div>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-62142454922921286212020-11-03T18:20:00.007-08:002020-11-03T18:26:41.498-08:00Feedback from Pete Hay in response to my poem, Drum...<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I think this is beautiful. It captures the 'love it and hate it' confusion even we fiercest of island patriots possess. And as for the power in the closing stanzas - absolutely unforgettable.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">DRUM</span></span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">These are my familiars:</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">a white gum veiled in a weaving of shadow,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">stringy trunks leaning, one hip pushed to the side</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">as though an infant might be perched on each bulge.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">*</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">I have lived here, in another lifetime.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">Anorexic gums line the road,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">reminding me of strangers’ funerals</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">when I was young.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">*</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">Wattles have cropped up like weeds, as they always do.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">A young pine forest, three power lines, arsenic posts.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">Someone has written DRUM on the <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><i style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">Pass Cyclists Safely </i></span>sign,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">and a <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><i style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">No Trespassing</i></span> addendum warns of 24 hour surveillance-</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">*</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">it is like a post-modern Lord’s Prayer.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">I once camped in bush like this, but can’t imagine,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">these days, setting up a tent amongst the trees.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">I was twenty. Such things were possible- though,</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">*</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">even then, a murderer lurked behind every tree.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">I wonder if newcomers sense it? the murderous intent?</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">the psycho-pathology of barbed wire fences?</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">the inanity of graffiti’d messages that mean nothing?</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;">*</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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He has published six volumes of poetry; one of these as editor, and one, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Last Days of the Mill</em><span style="color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">, in collaboration with a visual artist (this book won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Tasmanian Book Prize). His most recent books of poetry are </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Girl Reading Lorca</em><span style="color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"> (Picaro, 2015) and </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Physick </em><span style="color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">(Shoestring, 3016). He also writes personal essays (collected in 2002 as </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Vandiemonian Essays</em><span style="color: #797979; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">, with a second volume planned for 2017), commentary (including a stint as a newspaper columnist), and history.</span><br /><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"><br /></span></div>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-17568902862344632942020-07-25T16:38:00.000-07:002020-07-25T16:53:19.615-07:00Shrovetide Carnival<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "graphik"; font-size: 23px;">Shrovetide Carnival is one of the oldest folk traditions originating from the time before Christianity. In Slovenia, Shrovetide Carnival was first mentioned in the 17th century. Our ancestors believed that the ritual would chase evil spirits from the land.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "graphik"; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span>Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-62556372152618655382020-07-21T20:14:00.000-07:002020-07-21T20:14:43.513-07:00A leap of faith...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Last
night, I watched a documentary about the landing on the moon in the ‘60’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first two-thirds of the documentary were
about the preparation and landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
actually brought tears to my eyes, when Neil Armstrong said the famous
sentence, as he stepped down off the last rung: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>That surprised me, that it should be so emotive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really not like that…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
recalled sitting in class with what seemed like the whole school packed into
one hot room, watching a television set with doors on it that was wheeled out
for the weekly educational programmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was at a Catholic girls’ secondary school, and I must have been thirteen years
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The school was only two years old,
when I started there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was way out the
back of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a sort of creek
running through the school (more gully erosion than creek), with a log across
which we teetered to get to the top “ovals” (read paddocks).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saved all the scraps from lunch-time to
give to the pig farmer up the road, and we burned all the burnable rubbish in
an incinerator after lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all had
jobs after lunch break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For quite a
while, mine was sorting the scrap-and-rubbish-buckets, putting the scrap
buckets under the building, and setting light to the contents of the incinerator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was fun, as we (the two of us: a girl
called Marguerite and I) were allowed into class a bit late, and we also had an
exclusive kind of status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
Marguerite’s parents threatened to sue the school when she contracted hepatitis,
and thus ended our foray into recycling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also recall looking out the window, one day, and seeing a cow
meandering through the schoolyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dora
Stewart and I ran out to chase the animal out of the school grounds, and a good
time was had by all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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father did not believe in the Moon Landing, even at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He claimed that the moon did not exist- that
it was merely the reflection of the earth in space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that the publicity stunt was merely
to take people’s minds off the Vietnam War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He also said that someone had come and deliberately scraped the paint
off our roof, that Mum was a communist, that some of the advertisements on TV
were aimed at him, and that he was on a blacklist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get my drift…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last night, much of this came back to me, watching the ungainly, boxy shape of
Neil Armstrong stepping down into the dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was, unfortunately, a vague sense of cynicism in my enjoyment that
had never really been there before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
was it that the conspiracy theorists claimed about the American flag?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about a breeze that should not have
been there, blowing the cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also
claimed there was some object that didn’t belong, lying on the ground, that you
could discern if you magnified the image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These notions reminded me of the Beatles’ song that was supposed to say
“Ringo is dead!” if you played the LP backwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conspiracy theorists are often not cynics, at
all, but people who long for mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Anyway,
the niggling of vague doubt was completely erased as I watched the third
segment of the documentary in which the three astronauts spoke of the many
years that followed the moon landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They spoke of being changed men; they spoke of the fact that they could
never look at life or the universe in the same way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The landing on the moon was only one day in
my life”, one of them said…”the rest has been devoted to Jesus”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that, on his return to earth, he
had started attending a Bible-reading group, and that his newfound beliefs
eclipsed that one day that was a turning-point in his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another said how he remembered looking out of
the Apollo and seeing the moon and the stars and thinking: “The earth, and
everyone on the earth, and everything that man has made, is made of the stars… We
are all one!” He told what a moving experience it was, to come to that
realisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
do not remember which old man it was who said which words, but I was struck by
the awe with which they spoke, not of the moon, but of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sometimes, I just go out, and go on an escalator”,
one of them said, “just to have people around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I think to myself: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We really do live in the Garden of Eden!</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All men spoke of the strangeness of being one
of only two men standing on a planet uninhabited by any others; of knowing that
everyone else was down there on the earth, but that they were so far away, and
so alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One described the loneliness
of this realisation, but another described the feeling as euphoric.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the documentary, later, it struck me how ironic it was that three men
could travel so far, and under such unnatural circumstances, to achieve these
insights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listening to the wonder in
their voices, seeing the openness on their faces, there was no question, in my
mind, that these men had experienced something extraordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The image of the Garden of Eden came up
several times, and I remembered the day I came to my own epiphany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t recall what I was doing- I certainly
wasn’t setting foot on any celestial body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I recall the sudden understanding that the Book of Genesis is not a
story about the past, at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
prophetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are living in it right
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The Fuji-Q Highland amusement park near Tokyo has an unorthodox request for its roller coaster riders.<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMm5QVZ6QeY" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Please scream inside your heart,"</a> and not out loud, the park is asking. The unusual ask is meant to reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus.</span></h4>
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I'd be happy and honored to publish your poem "Sky God"</div>
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in Issue 4 of Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal.</div>
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I would be honored to translate your poem "Sky God".</div>
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Fern flower is the most famous among all the mystical herbs, primarily because fern (Athýrium fílix-fémina) is a very common plant that, no matter how much we’d want to, would never produce any real flowers (for more info on the fern plant, please see “Fern”). Researcher of Russian traditions, academic I.P. Sakharov writes the following about this plant: “Female fern, or fern is collected on St. John’s Day, with special rituals and incantations. According to folk view, only fern flower contains its power; it blooms only on St. John’s Eve and is protected by evil forces. Villagers provide all the details of fern blooming. Let’s repeat their story.<br />
At midnight, from the bush of broad-leaf fern, a flower bud appears. It moves back and forth, then rocks like a river wave, then hops like a live bird. All of this happens because evil forces are trying to hide the precious blossom from human eyes. Then, expanding and growing upwards every minute, it blooms like hot coal. Finally, at 12 am precisely, the star-like flower unfolds with a cracking sound; its flame shines upon itself and in the distance. At the very same moment, evil forces show up and collect this flower.</div>
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One who dares to collect a fern flower must enter the forest in advance, find the bush [of fern], cast a circle around himself and wait for it to bloom. He has to be firm and unhesitant against evil forces, withstand all the temptations, be indifferent to all transformations of evil force. If he turns around when someone calls his name, the evil forces would twist his neck, or strangle him, or leave him mad for the rest of his life. So far, villagers don’t know anyone who was able to collect the fern flower besides sorcerers. Fern flower has a power over evil spirits, allows one rule over earth and water, find buried treasures, and become invisible. All this power would belong to the one that comes into possession of this flower. As they search for buried treasures, the seekers throw fern flower up in the air. If there is a buried treasure nearby, the flower would fly over it like a star and then fall straight to the ground.” (I.P. Sakharov, “Tales of Russian People: Tales of Russian Sorcery”)</div>
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Many ideas are suggested as to whether the fern flower really exists. Some say certain type of fungus may infect fern leaves and make them glow at night; others are certain that this is just a fairytale invented for fools; thirds claim that fern flower is not physical but appears as a burst of energy coming straight from the plant – this is why it is so difficult to collect it. Where is the truth? We wouldn’t know unless we experience it ourselves.</div>
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Slavic people believed that all herbs became magical on Kupala’s Eve. At this time, they could talk to humans and each other, bloom with absolutely magical “fiery” flowers, show a way to buried treasure, and even move, running away from an unworthy person daring to collect them. Who knows, maybe all these legends will come to life once again on this Kupala’s Eve, only if we are brave enough to open ourselves to nature and believe in Kupala’s magic, just as our ancestors a did long time ago.</div>
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Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-39010595341166837972020-06-11T15:43:00.000-07:002020-06-11T15:43:54.763-07:00Hulla, Skogsra, Skogsfru, Tallemaja, Pine Tree Mary...In Norwegian folklore it is believed a fairy-woman or nymph named Huldra ("secret" or "hidden") lives in the forest or mountains. Sometimes, she is said to be beautiful, but seen from behind, revealed to be hollow. Other times, she is said to be blue-skinned. In areas where she is known as "skogsnerte" ("blue"), she is said to be coloured blue and wearing a green petticoat.<br />
As Huldra (by which she is most often known), she wears a blue petticoat and a white snood that barely covers a cow-like tail. She is particularly fond of brindled cattle, and keeps a herd of hornless cows. In the mountains, her song can be herd over a great distance- a low and mournful tune.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #6aa84f;">A hulder is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore. Her name derives from a root meaning "covered" or "secret". In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra. She is known as the skogsrå "forest spirit" or Tallemaja "pine tree Mary" in Swedish folklore, and ulda in Sámi folklore. </span></div>
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sometimes private school kids called alexander<o:p></o:p></div>
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would strangle the necks of their violins<o:p></o:p></div>
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once I saw a boy juggling balls and<o:p></o:p></div>
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a girl with no guitar sang greensleeves<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the nth degree<o:p></o:p></div>
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but the dancing man busked his strangeness<o:p></o:p></div>
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his weirdness was his instrument<o:p></o:p></div>
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strung up tight<o:p></o:p></div>
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and tuned to a pitching fork<o:p></o:p></div>
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he played his alienation<o:p></o:p></div>
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the way he practised the scales<o:p></o:p></div>
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but now the dancing man has danced himself safe<o:p></o:p></div>
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The theme was heat! I read this poem...<br />
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<u><span lang="EN-US">FAITH OF OUR FATHERS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The gully,
a thurible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">wafting
bushfire smoke;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">the smoke
pungent, acrid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">Down in Ad-or-ation falling… <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">we used to
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<i><span lang="EN-US">this
great sacrament Divine…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">while the
priest and his entourage filled the aisle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">with the
embroidered satin and pungent stink of godly things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The smoke
from scarlet-resined gums, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">from
purple-podded wattle, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">from dry
bracken and dogwood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">cleaving to
the towns down south<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">like burrs
to an old grey blanket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No one can
tell where it’s coming from,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">so thick
and low-lying is the somnolent smoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We closet
ourselves inside the house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">while a
million smoke-crazy midges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">batter the
windows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At five
minutes past ten, the rains begin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">staccato,
percussive,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(a
benediction!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">then fluid,
a chrism, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">a million
small, finite heavens <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">sliding on
the roof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Falling,
bouncing off,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">making
runnels in the corrugations,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">on and on,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">steady and
strong,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">cleansing
the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I bring the
washing indoors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is
flecked with white ash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">the size of
the mosquitoes that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">lazily,
slothfully,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">patrol us
in the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The rain
falls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sometimes…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">but on and
on it falls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">dousing the
terrible flames<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">we cannot
even see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and try to see shapes there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do trees recall a forgotten history<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do the cliffs examine our
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">extrusions, to map old seismic
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Anyway, I'm finally </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">reading House of the Flight Helpers - about 50 pages so far. Your </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">writing is so wonderful, the descriptions so powerful - I'm getting </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">depressed! What a miserable world is Incognita. I'm feeling like I </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">wish the birds would totally invade the place and send everyone </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">running. Well, the fact is, you are even more brilliant as a writer </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">than I ever suspected, and I already thought you were the best... </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">love, E.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Only stating the obvious! Your writing so deserves that gorgeous </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">hard-back publication. Oh, and also, just as a reader with not a lot </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">of time for reading, I so appreciate the beautifully short chapters. </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">No matter how scary or gloomy the scenario, I can move on to the next </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">bit. The last few books I've read, the chapters were sooooo long, and </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I read late at night, and get sleepy, and just groan sometimes. And </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">sometimes don't even finish the chapter - heresy!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And I'm now at </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the part of Flight-Helpers where Honeysuckle Rose and Juana Jubilee </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">get out of Incognita. Thank heavens!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Have to admit, I'm breathing easier now that those </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">poor people have some fresh air and open sky...</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hi there, you amazing person. What a great ending! And the stories and </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">sagas and travels and meetings that converge at the end - wonderful. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And yes, I noticed that Bird Boy ended up with a crown of thorns, and </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I'm glad he didn't get the gruesome demise that goes with it. And I </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">noticed the "Havnotz" bread, too; this was the grimmest ever society </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">of haves and have-nots.... It's great how you snuck in the religious </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and the political elements with barely a blip on the radar. That's </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">subversive! Whew - trouble is, great literature seeps into my brain </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and my brain feels saturated and next thing, thoughts will come oozing </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">out of my ears. I better pick up a trashy crime novel real quick, as </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">an antidote... Love ya!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Aha - and that wonderful revolution, not a 'call to arms' but a call </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">to compassion, blankets for people who were cold. Brilliant!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I hope you realize you have totally subverted the whole male-dominated </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">warrior / cowboy orientation of the SF genre. The annoying thing is </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">that few people will buy a book of that price. Any hope of a </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">paperback...?</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Oh good! I was wondering it they'd put the book in contests. Well - </span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">win a prize and they might bring out a paperback!</span><br />
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<br />Philomenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11945140914460958710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956794234217056688.post-21051023910495868462020-01-24T00:51:00.000-08:002020-01-24T00:51:14.880-08:00Holbeche Road Dreaming
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My eldest daughter, Heidi, wrote this poem back in 2009. She only sent it to me recently, saying that she wasn't sure it was "good enough". I have no words to describe how precious it is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother was a girl once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
hair plaited in braids,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bandy-legs
below baby-doll hem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother was a girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Once
she ran the length of the train</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
a superman costume.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother was not always a mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
womb woke and,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
the plane hung suspended in the impossibility of air,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An
egg split, and split.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother was a girl in a cornflower dress</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
she walked an aisle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swelling
beneath her bodice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
knees still grazed, she played</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the edges of ribboned plaits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Feet
swollen with summer and expectation,,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Watched
the mare expect her foal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
made a bower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
began a conversation in those lonely times</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
you rubbed and sang the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
beauty of the rising dust:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
husband returns to ease</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fatalistic
claustrophobia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
sweaty panic of loneliness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
fear </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
failing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rising
like funnel-webs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
the hot, Sydney loam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mother and her child shared a private world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
held their secrets as stones at the bottom of dry puddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Waiting
for rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
you held me you found no metamorphosis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Instead,
all those pebble secrets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Turned
into the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
wet them with our stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
that they could guide us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
they do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There.
Between you and me, we grew each other up.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">March, 2009</span></i></div>
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