...indeed
*blows through pipe, bubbles come out*
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words -- We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years -- The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about -- Even the rocks of the valley had earlier rock ancestors, a billion billion years ago, have left no howl of complaint -- Neither the bee, or the first sea urchins, or the clam, or the severed paw -- All said So-Is sight of the world, right there in front of my nose as I look, -- And looking at that valley in fact I also realize I have to make lunch and it wont be any different than the lunch of those olden men and besides it'll taste good -- Everything is the same, the fog says "We are fog and we fly by dissolving like ephemera", and the leaves say "We are leaves and we jiggle in the wind, that's all, we come and go, grow and fall" -- Even the paper bags in my garbage pit say "We are man transformed paper bags made out of wood pulp, we are kinda proud of being paper bags as long as that will be possible, but we'll be mush again with our sisters the leaves come rainy season" ? The tree stumps say "We are tree stumps torn out of the ground by men, sometimes by wind, we have big tendrils full of earth that drink out of the earth'... Men say "We are men, we pull out tree stumps, we make paper bags, we think wise thoughts, we make lunch, we look around, we make a great effort to realize everything is the same" -- While the sand says "We are sand, we already know", and the sea says "We are always come and go, fall and plosh." -- The empty blue sky of space says "All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me" -- The blue sky adds "Dont call me eternity, call me God if you like, all of you talkers are in paradise: the leaf is paradise, the tree stump is paradise, the paper bag is paradise, the man is paradise, the fog is paradise" -- Can you imagine a man with mar-velous insights like these can go mad within a month? (because you must admit all those talking paper bags and sands were telling the truth) -- But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek toward the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of "Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do" -- And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.
~Jack Kerouac
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ April 21, 2004 04:32 PM: Message edited by: virtualNYC ]</font>
...indeed
*blows through pipe, bubbles come out*
RaNdOm? but the capital and lower case letters alternate very nice and orderly... i see nothing random about it...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">mere trifles---or trufflesOriginally posted by Joranthalus:
RaNdOm? but the capital and lower case letters alternate very nice and orderly... i see nothing random about it...
mmmmmmmmmm.................beer
It's a secret message.
RNO....adm...
Rhino Administration!!!
fleece
...great...now I am thinking "deep" thoughts. Once I start thinking "deep" thoughts, everything goes to hell. This will end with me hugging a bottle of whiskey in the corner of a basement sobbing...again...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">doesn't that happen no matter what kind of thoughts you're thinking?Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...great...now I am thinking "deep" thoughts. Once I start thinking "deep" thoughts, everything goes to hell. This will end with me hugging a bottle of whiskey in the corner of a basement sobbing...again...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">doesn't that happen no matter what kind of thoughts you're thinking?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...not every time...Originally posted by Joranthalus:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...great...now I am thinking "deep" thoughts. Once I start thinking "deep" thoughts, everything goes to hell. This will end with me hugging a bottle of whiskey in the corner of a basement sobbing...again...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You're not turning into Jack Handey, are you now?Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...great...now I am thinking "deep" thoughts. Once I start thinking "deep" thoughts, everything goes to hell. This will end with me hugging a bottle of whiskey in the corner of a basement sobbing...again...
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