tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50867572024-03-07T00:47:27.679-05:00pollobionicoabrupt skits, painful theatre, improv of the absurdRussell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.comBlogger1602125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-33613805078885081522023-11-08T18:27:00.001-05:002023-11-08T18:27:42.936-05:00Venue in Fur<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNtgKYBJ__jkn4V5RRQHYBgNMG1Y1QusUIIaZaxMUXJyqWJERRFrxAVbWYc7mlNaJMnScJ_YBWIML1IeL1Ny5aOPhndNHWL5xHCQeOPqKWIZiZL84hXEnlu4QaOvKxrHJchcywuQloSYuwAnWzzdnSdw98-e4tWX0NTrbgTeQfDQFO3jcO-DiCA/s4032/IMG_3358.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNtgKYBJ__jkn4V5RRQHYBgNMG1Y1QusUIIaZaxMUXJyqWJERRFrxAVbWYc7mlNaJMnScJ_YBWIML1IeL1Ny5aOPhndNHWL5xHCQeOPqKWIZiZL84hXEnlu4QaOvKxrHJchcywuQloSYuwAnWzzdnSdw98-e4tWX0NTrbgTeQfDQFO3jcO-DiCA/s320/IMG_3358.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-73017279003050220552023-09-21T23:55:00.003-04:002023-09-22T00:15:37.308-04:00Dark knight of the soil<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxZUVlrVawfPlCid4Mumc1gH3iJH5c6D21bdV2UB91w6OXz9QrR8pHh4ds8bDCM-GWAfO_FTz5hQp8' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: repeat; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: repeat; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dark Night of the Soul</b><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">On a dark night,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Kindled in love with yearnings</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">–oh, happy chance!–</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">I went forth without being observed,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">My house being now at rest.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">In darkness and secure,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">By the secret ladder, disguised</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">–oh, happy chance!–</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">In darkness and in concealment,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">My house being now at rest.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">In the happy night,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">In secret, when none saw me,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Nor I beheld aught,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Without light or guide, save that which burned in my</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">heart.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">This light guided me</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">More surely than the light of noonday</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">To the place where he (well I knew who!) was awaiting me–</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">A place where none appeared.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Oh, night that guided me,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Lover transformed in the Beloved!</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Upon my flowery breast,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Kept wholly for himself alone,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">There he stayed sleeping, and I caressed him,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">And the fanning of the cedars made a breeze.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">The breeze blew from the turret</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">As I parted his locks;</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">With his gentle hand he wounded my neck</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">And caused all my senses to be suspended.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">I remained, lost in oblivion;</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">My face I reclined on the Beloved.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">All ceased and I abandoned myself,</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 16px;">Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.</span></p><p>St John-prisoner of Toledo</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9a95e80HyWs5jGf4V4tWNygewpnoyXkvBupKfBx76Zi3SLj033hEEeXP8yLBtTLiXHS0EuuzVvTD5MySmrkCFSWnxZCCRCYtQPaGtRpemGAUPAWGkdY2EClpR29w7X5cWQsVJmPhkGbAjPOGOTx_jfxy9kHr6LmRu7gYYDrt-TAQd8b9RkTeXg/s3369/IMG_2987.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3369" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9a95e80HyWs5jGf4V4tWNygewpnoyXkvBupKfBx76Zi3SLj033hEEeXP8yLBtTLiXHS0EuuzVvTD5MySmrkCFSWnxZCCRCYtQPaGtRpemGAUPAWGkdY2EClpR29w7X5cWQsVJmPhkGbAjPOGOTx_jfxy9kHr6LmRu7gYYDrt-TAQd8b9RkTeXg/s320/IMG_2987.jpeg" width="287" /></a></div><br />Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-33171711766816432682023-09-05T12:21:00.000-04:002023-09-05T12:21:25.752-04:00Piazza D'Italia<p> My father took my sister and I to visit this plaza in 1985. Same year as the New Orleans worlds fair. I became a sculptor and teach at the college level now. My own work is highly idiosyncratic and improvisation and retro causation play a big part in my process. Often I make objects because of some intrinsic aesthetic value in the material initially and slowly allow the pieces to take a clearer objective form. In thinking critically about the work I have come to recognize multiple instances where the influence of this plaza has worked its way into my psyche. Byzantine stripes and Corinthian capitals haunt me and necessitate exorcism at every scale. It is poetic to me that the PIAZZA D’ITALIA is considered one of the first Post Modern ruins.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJwB6XX8bsNZnx9RBGHRrgrZSd7DcvAwWh9XSM1c0J-auhnHuyVfg5Tk78-8gWbOEIL9qM318JwWqvPoOZy_NQQ7awLgxVMWfVBxCRQThAVoqMPzjlfdEQse8qSTmfDPC32dElWpc0wZB-b7m6aEItLD1rjrNXVoPfcFQLgXxJujH7kNGWoXt9Ig" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="926" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJwB6XX8bsNZnx9RBGHRrgrZSd7DcvAwWh9XSM1c0J-auhnHuyVfg5Tk78-8gWbOEIL9qM318JwWqvPoOZy_NQQ7awLgxVMWfVBxCRQThAVoqMPzjlfdEQse8qSTmfDPC32dElWpc0wZB-b7m6aEItLD1rjrNXVoPfcFQLgXxJujH7kNGWoXt9Ig" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-38405207753246549342023-05-06T14:47:00.000-04:002023-05-06T14:47:10.783-04:00Only human<p> <img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7d75d4a0-49b8-4a01-8aad-e2b188f851b7" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-67880046296571779502023-05-05T16:28:00.001-04:002023-05-05T16:28:21.557-04:00opal<p> <img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e188e0fa-4e95-4129-838b-7ea3a1d8915a" /></p><p>Upon watching the short animated feature Opal by Jack Stauber,<a href="https://youtu.be/I-GT5m5II2I"> https://youtu.be/I-GT5m5II2I</a> I was reminded of a passage from an Aleister Crowley essay on The Old Absynth House in New Orleans.</p><p>It goes like this.</p><p>II.</p><p>The barrier between divine and human things is frail but inviolable; the artist and the bourgeois are only divided by a point of view--"A hair divided the false and true."</p><p>I am watching the opalescence of my absinthe, and it leads me to ponder upon a certain very curious mystery, persistent in legend. We may call it the mystery of the rainbow.</p><p>Originally in the fantastic but significant legend of the</p><p>Hebrews, the rainbow is mentioned as the sign of salvation. The world has been purified by water, and was ready for the revelation of Wine. God would never again destroy His work, but ultimately seal its perfection by a baptism of fire.</p><p>Now, in this analogue also falls the coat of many colors which</p><p>was made for Joseph, a legend which was regarded as so important that it was subsequently borrowed for the romance of Jesus. The veil of the Temple, too, was of many colors. We find, further</p><p>east, that the Manipura Cakkra--the Lotus of the City of Jewels--which is an important centre in Hindu anatomy, and apparently identical with the solar plexus, is the central point</p><p>of the nervous system of the human body, dividing the sacred from the profane, or the lower from the higher.</p><p>In western Mysticism, once more we learn that the middle grade initiation is called Hodos Camelioniis, the Path of the Chameleon. There is here evidently an illusion to this same mystery. We also learn that the middle stage in Alchemy is when the liquor becomes opalescent.</p><p>Finally, we note among the visions of the Saints one called the Universal Peacock, in which the totality is perceived thus</p><p><br /></p><p>royally appareled.</p><p>Would it were possible to assemble in this place the cohorts of quotation; for indeed they are beautiful with banners, flashing their myriad rays from cothurn and habergeon, gay and gallant in the light of that Sun which knows no fall from Zenith of high noon!</p><p>Yet I must needs already have written so much to make clear one pitiful conceit: can it be that in the opalescence of absinthe is some occult link with this mystery of the Rainbow? For undoubtedly one does indefinably and subtly insinuate the drinker in the secret chamber of Beauty, does kindle his thoughts to rapture, adjust his point of view to that of the artists, at</p><p>least to that degree of which he is originally capable, weave for his fancy a gala dress of stuff as many-colored as the mind of Aphrodite.</p><p>Oh Beauty! Long did I love thee, long did I pursue thee, thee elusive, thee intangible! And lo! thou enfoldest me by night and day in the arms of gracious, of luxurious, of shimmering silence.</p><p><a href="https://ia600606.us.archive.org/24/items/CollectedPdfsByAleisterCrowley/AleisterCrowley-AbsintheTheGreenGoddess.pdf">https://ia600606.us.archive.org/24/items/CollectedPdfsByAleisterCrowley/AleisterCrowley-AbsintheTheGreenGoddess.pdf</a></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-20227688955111641952023-01-20T15:54:00.004-05:002023-01-29T08:49:44.131-05:00MAGNETS-gravity makes the world go round<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfC72bM-N2NRUGKvTNX4RNdueGcA6FRhQCu3Oy3qJErDj2h70RYAqWCpH_OjdA9WvmKEeZ5P2eX6FtmZy5jpUMS4c0mfBqEPl1AGktq86paOUdBgx4eH2W5ju0B_2oAePaspyK_JYmbIy8PRvxxqmz2aQCBO-XpQpoN1TldkEIHaEbqjNiQgs/s877/Scan.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="636" height="726" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfC72bM-N2NRUGKvTNX4RNdueGcA6FRhQCu3Oy3qJErDj2h70RYAqWCpH_OjdA9WvmKEeZ5P2eX6FtmZy5jpUMS4c0mfBqEPl1AGktq86paOUdBgx4eH2W5ju0B_2oAePaspyK_JYmbIy8PRvxxqmz2aQCBO-XpQpoN1TldkEIHaEbqjNiQgs/w567-h726/Scan.jpeg" width="567" /></a></div><br /> "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting"-Mark Twain<p></p><p>I believe this was a quote about the scarcity of water in the western United States. I saw in Twain's sentiment a possible connection to classical philosophy. As I stood in a hypnagogic stupor at the back door of my house looking out into the garden at 7:30 in the morning, I thought of the elements as a cosmology similar to the pre Socratic philosopher Empedocles. I thought how interpersonal conflicts come in two varieties. One is over convictions we hold based on the element of fire (whiskey being associated with the element of fire). Those are the ideas connected to our desires, our projections, our illusions. The appearances of things, our expectations. Water is a necessity. It is nurturing so our relationship with that element hits on a limbic , serpent brain, primordial level. We tussle over our delusions as almost entertainment but we kill over our sustenance. <br /></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-83036236228355452902021-12-08T13:21:00.001-05:002021-12-08T13:21:12.112-05:00Idol playthings<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6dPLqfg5rpA/YbD2nlHavHI/AAAAAAAAM4U/5iXF-aaJHckRcshMfcsXs4bHMYFsykPHACNcBGAsYHQ/blowedert%2B1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="934" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6dPLqfg5rpA/YbD2nlHavHI/AAAAAAAAM4U/5iXF-aaJHckRcshMfcsXs4bHMYFsykPHACNcBGAsYHQ/blowedert%2B1.jpeg" width="223" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_xl1PaC1Ovo" width="320" youtube-src-id="_xl1PaC1Ovo"></iframe></div><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-36811644806517440992021-12-07T14:23:00.002-05:002021-12-07T14:23:29.376-05:00“It isn’t often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.” Wodehouse<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eEgSKLdjYxg/Ya-shb4xnpI/AAAAAAAAM4I/2auRJBJIAT4CHf8zEX7vbi6_GMVcSLgjgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1422/beasnoseed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1422" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eEgSKLdjYxg/Ya-shb4xnpI/AAAAAAAAM4I/2auRJBJIAT4CHf8zEX7vbi6_GMVcSLgjgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/beasnoseed.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-51132097563463097682021-09-10T14:35:00.000-04:002021-09-10T14:35:01.407-04:00Armory <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZwUc3vgDB90" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZwUc3vgDB90"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-59868097431366078892021-09-10T14:34:00.001-04:002021-09-10T14:34:18.318-04:00Build me up buttercup <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OSC4hWUlenY" width="320" youtube-src-id="OSC4hWUlenY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-52481805114033652152021-09-09T11:38:00.002-04:002021-09-09T13:54:36.027-04:00Dragoon Baracks Larry flood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cXHtXbHN1M/YTpKOfna4cI/AAAAAAAAM1I/Xv5rEvwZNDwljrOXnEO5g5b68tQ6vpzQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/5C05945B-BEE7-4AF1-91D9-3C3B0D6C828D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cXHtXbHN1M/YTpKOfna4cI/AAAAAAAAM1I/Xv5rEvwZNDwljrOXnEO5g5b68tQ6vpzQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/5C05945B-BEE7-4AF1-91D9-3C3B0D6C828D.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-58IdOjOVqpA/YTpJ8B7vi8I/AAAAAAAAM1A/Iof394IVkQw6f3dALJvnrWmbpJ3MD9urQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D681ED64-ED13-4174-8C20-88795B01A71D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-58IdOjOVqpA/YTpJ8B7vi8I/AAAAAAAAM1A/Iof394IVkQw6f3dALJvnrWmbpJ3MD9urQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D681ED64-ED13-4174-8C20-88795B01A71D.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-40951656506735295082021-03-24T14:50:00.001-04:002021-03-24T14:50:52.709-04:00I commute with my wifeI am a passenger. I stare out the window in slow moving traffic awaiting our turn to pass over the bridge. I look out the window and down Avilles St. Cobble bricks cradled between coquina buildings. I imagine in the future, if not already, this sightseeing town of 500 years has developed a special kind of apparition. A ghost tourist.
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The kind of reality comprehended by meditation. We are not the collection of experiences . Only the veil of ether like a sheet over a concrescence of phenomena. Focusing on the manic giggles of his mood elevators would lead acolytes and historians astray.</span><p></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-87587587771284317532020-12-10T09:46:00.000-05:002020-12-10T09:46:05.732-05:00Mark Court Rolls -Royce Coachliner<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GHr6BEnvmVo/X9IyA-LeO3I/AAAAAAAAMpA/viAo4e0xBicwZKiWZnbisrrciTSmY0QIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s251/mark-court.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GHr6BEnvmVo/X9IyA-LeO3I/AAAAAAAAMpA/viAo4e0xBicwZKiWZnbisrrciTSmY0QIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/mark-court.jpeg" /></a></div>In drawing this portrait I was looking for signs of Mr. Courts skill as a pinstripe specialist. The brightness in his eyes. 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Settle down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Write a song, I'll sing along <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Soon you will know that you are sane<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You're on top of the world again<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Monday morning wake up knowing that you've got to go to school<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tell your mum what to expect, she says it's right out of the blue<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Do you went to work in C&A, 'cause that's what they expect<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Move to laundry and take a feel off Joe the Storeman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tell Veronica the secret of the boy you never kissed <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />She's got everything to gain 'cause she's a fat girl with a lisp<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />'Cause you can't afford a blazer girl you're always wearing clogs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At the interval you lock yourself away inside a room <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Head of English gets you, asks you, "What the Hell do you think you're doing?"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Do you think you're better then the other kids? Well get outside."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You've got permission, but you've got to make the bastard think he's right <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hey, you've been used<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Write a song, I'll sing along<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Are you calm? Settle down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Soon you will know that you are sane<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You're on top of the world again<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And you cool and you know<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You're a star and you'll go far<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Listen to me as a friend<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Not just a boy who play guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You're on top of the world again</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bellesebastian/expectations.html">Belle and Sebastian 'Expectations"</a></div><p><br /></p>Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-42379371412918487472020-03-06T05:55:00.001-05:002020-09-21T21:17:46.647-04:00Poetry in MotionBlinded me with Science<br />
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<br />Russell Maycumberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530316180316880309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5086757.post-27015263479957303192020-03-05T10:44:00.001-05:002020-09-21T21:17:46.643-04:00Golden AssColorful invectives courtesy Giordano Bruno.<br />
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<span style="font-family: MinionKsRegular; font-size: 10pt;">It also suggests the degree of his militant anger at those who opposed his intellectual agenda, dis- played for example in </span><span style="font-family: MinkstoneItalicRegular; font-size: 10pt;">La cena, </span><span style="font-family: MinionKsRegular; font-size: 10pt;">the first of his London dialogues, with a verse ‘‘To the Malcontent’’ warning, ‘‘Since you have confronted me with injustice, / I shall stretch and pull your skin all over; / And should my body too fall to the ground, / Your shame will be re- corded in hard diamond’’ (Jaki 1975, 42). Brandishing the invective typical of his subsequent dialogue attacks on pedants, Bruno con- cludes the </span><span style="font-family: MinkstoneItalicRegular; font-size: 10pt;">Ad excellentissimum </span><span style="font-family: MinionKsRegular; font-size: 10pt;">epistle with a curse on the ‘‘diluvii asinorum stercora malis aureis’’ [floods of evil golden manure from asses] who have infiltrated the university environment until ‘‘nunc cuilibet stulto et asino liceat in nostras positiones hic vel alibi’’ [now any fool and ass is allowed into our positions here and elsewhere] (2.2.78). This oxymoronic ‘‘golden manure’’ alludes to the Cicero- nian ornamentation of the Oxford rhetoricians (see Yates 1982, 137), gilding their stubborn resistance to his ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Even if you wished could manure on someones soul in th lore of magic the blowback is three fold. Best to wish for clarity of vision for all concerned. </span><br />
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Excerpt from Gordon Whites Rune Soup blog.-"But there is something very powerful about the joy of play, which in almost every form requires navigating probabilities. It's like the universe 'notices' you. Perhaps it does?</div>
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There is also something very dangerous about play... dangerous in a good way. And I'm not talking about the sometimes-alarming paranormal effects that accompany roleplaying (or the weird dreams). Play is dangerous because it teaches you about rules. When to follow them, <a href="http://runesoup.com/2012/02/why-arent-you-fighting-dirty/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0275d8; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;">when to break them</a>... and when to bet the farm:</div>
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An ambitious king, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalandhara" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #273737; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jalandhara </a>by name, by virtue of assiduously practicing yoga acquired such supernatural powers that he was able to overthrow the gods themselves in their heaven. In his hubris at this success he decided that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #273737; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shiva</a>'s consort, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #273737; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Parvati</a>, should properly be his queen. To this end he summoned forth a great demon, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahu" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #273737; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rahu</a>, the Seizer - whose more normal night time job was to catch the moon and eclipse it - to act as his emissary on this considerable errand. When Rahu confronted Shiva with his request the latter, unperturbed, let blast a flash of light from his third eye, conjuring forth a leonine headed emaciated demon which was non other than ravenous hunger incarnate. Rahu realising his probable fate if he were to confront this horror, cast himself upon Shiva's mercy and implored forgiveness. Appeased, Shiva granted him protection from the terrible monster who however now demanded from the god another victim that his hunger might be temporarily satiated. With the wit of a supreme godhead, Shiva suggest the monster eat himself, which he did until only his upper face remained. Shiva delighted by this act granted the vestigial terrifying face the compliment of:<br />
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