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JOURNAL, INPUT STARTING 7 March '05
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INPUT 30 March '05 -- 19 Adar II -- 22 Safar

(N.B. -- I have =jr050328.txt ready to Post, whenever I find an Internet terminal with a working A-drive. 
I also have =so050328 or some such ready to Post, Procedure notes on Archiving PVK teachings.

Meanwhile, here's online input from the notebook in my vest pocket:

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Wittgenstein, Culture and Value:  "Streich Gelt von jeder Fehler"
This is tikun, and it is alo the on-earth echo of tzim_tzum.
And it is "the ba'al tchuva stands where the tzadik cannot reach"
It is the dialectic advance through fixing our errors.

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Open the package
'Sefer Otiot'
She's sent it back
in a black plastic bag.
No note.

      (28 March '05)

Note:
    Larry Kushner, Sefer Otiot, as beautiful a book of Hebrew religious calligraphy as I've seen.  Harper and Row published the original edition, if I recall.

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I seem suddenly have been recast 
from White Knight in harmless private dream
to the villain in a fantasy I can't quite understand
and hope I don't.

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Dry Trail:

Walk up to Aquacalda
Albergo's open again
New manager this year
"Would you like to eat or to drink"
"No money to spend today.  May I have a glass of water."
He tlls me to wait
then brings me back
one glass of water.
I walk on up the road
and then walk back.
He sees me coming
and walks away.

      (29 March '05)

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Ski season's over.
Honest George closes the Restorante
because nobody in their right mind
would come there to eat.

     (Centro Ski Nordico, Monday 29 March '05 )

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And if you take him for your spouse
you'll need a rather larger house.
(It ain't surprising that you're gloomy
with a 2-room flatmate roomy
if you cannot spread your wings
but bumping into him or things.
I guess it's nice to have a home
but animals need room to roam.

    :GORAL looks down on the town

Note:
(AG has told me that 'Goral' is the Polish term for their 'mountain-men')

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Apologies for sprinkled lies:

"What's black and whilte and has 3 wheels."
 "A Zebra."
    "A Zebra?"
"A Zebra; I lied about the wheels."

            (USA 1950s High-School joke, more or less)

Why can't a poet cheat
and lie a little.
So maybe he's not really me
eg Berryman's Henry.
We never ask the Nymph's opinion
nor why "no birds sing" -- 
maybe he was "sans merci" -- 
the knight, not the belladonna
and had carried a shotgun to that lake.

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I sit in her shadow now¨
and see myself so
"It isn't fair"
and only in others' light
I find myself again
surprised that I'm still there.

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More notes to the file-cabinet:

Oh Agnieska, I've run so far away now
on a few glasses of wine
paid on the Never-Never
back to Junior High in the USA
and all the Old World still undiscovered

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In the Scriavi case, an injunction against removing the feeding tube should have been granted immediately as long as there were any applications pending for judicial, legislative, or administrative redress.
This is a matter of forestalling irreperable harm to allow due process of law, however put-upon and sophistic, to take its course.
And even Pontius Pilate, washing his hands in known hypocricy, as Rembrandt shows with such poignant into human self-betrayal, would barely have indulged in such passive killing.  If she is to die, do so with a simple injection, not by starving the body, however insensible it may be.

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The Jackson case would now seem to be an obvious mistrial.
One cannot admit previous cases, much less previous untried accusations.
Especially as defense no longer has the opportunity to cross-examine the accusers.

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Forward to Rewrite:

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine / You make me happy when skies are grey. / You'll never know, dear, how much I love you / Please don't take my sunshine away."

It alwas been so and thus
why now, fond lover, make a fuss
the lady gives unstintingly        
like Soren's knight with flying cape
until she's past satiety
and dreams but of a nunnery.

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I pass an easeless night and watches
TV ladies play their crotches
(tho that's no so if truth's to tell;
in fact I slept for me quite well.
When love's rebuffed so too is truth.)

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Notes, not a poem:

Are you so proud [fo la ti do]
to not afford a little lie
as wrapper of civility
[ to hold open roads ] with social hypocricy
Wilde:  "Manners are much more important than morals"

Sorry; the Polisport Center is playing some rather in-your-face USA rap & crap, so I don't have space to think clear enough to polish this stuff.

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PVK:  "And then Bellephone has to ascend without Pegassus"
This is ego-loss )we we called it in the LSD days)

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"Life is unfair" but one must not collaborate.
Accept its advantageas with gratitutde but with attendant obligations, both to ameliorate its unfairness ( tzadaka ) and to enhance ( hodor ) your culture.

(Biasca--Lugano--Mendrisio train, 29 March '05)

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"Stand up before the snowy head" (Pirke haAvot) -- 
not merely to assist their physical needs and excuse "the indignities of old age", but beause the aged see and feel things more intensely -- like a youth on pot or acid, but without the spirit, resiliance, and protective callousness of youth.
I never guessed that when I was young; if I had, I would have worked enough to earn social security.  Older, one needs to be able to stop fighting life and enjoy it. 

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Time the sail to different winds
of the emotions.

Notes:

HIK:  You need a deep ship to sail the sea.

Song from my childhood at Shady Hill School:

"Sailing East, sailing West
sailing over the Ocean -- 
better watch out when the boat begins to rock
or you'll lose your Self in the Ocean."

Note:  The Talmudic parable about the Jewish people as fish swimming in the sea of Jewish tradition and religious law.

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As for honorifics in the SO:
It is Murshid HIK, PVK, Sufi Sam Lewis haLevi, and ZIK .
If he is 'Pir Zia' , then I am Sufi Steve .

(Notes;

I'm almost sure that Sufi Sam Lewis was Jewish, and I think that usually Lewis is an Anglicazation of Levi .  The Levites were the singers and musicians in Temple times, so this runs easily into the Chisti order, which is the order of musicians.
PVK has said, I think in one of the tapes that I have input as audio, that one should never say that one is a Sufi, but that this is an Ideal toward which one aims -- and that seems to be a footnote to HIKs remark that the purpose of one's life is like the horizon -- continually receding to draw one onward as one sails toward it.
Too, PVK would appoint people to a job and then expect them to grow into it.

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Note sent to info@lugano.ch

Today I saw about 20 Japanese women tourists queu for the Bahnhof toilet.  That is a disgrace to Lugano.

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Sent to JP 30 March '05

Teh tyranny of a legislative majority seems blatantly 'unconstitutional' as it violates the unlegislated principles of democracy.  A simple legislative majority, especially one elected not directly but for a long term as party blocs, cannot disposses or relocate the residents of a given region.
In a democracy minority groups of citizens -- geographic, political, religious, and/or ethnic -- cannot be obliged by the majority to bear burdens not shared by all citizens.
Much less can a legislativae majority, especially one elected for long terms on a party-bloc basis, immune to changing circumstances but subject to post-elecdtion shifts in party position, deny the electorate the right ot ovaerride by refeerdum its decisions.

[Sorry, the local lunchtime drunks have come to Polisport now to drink a glass of wine etc, so I can't quite polish this, it's all I can do to type it in from my notebook.  And I'm a bit tired and hungry, I've been on this almost 3 hours. ]

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HONEST GEORGE locks up even the potty.
ARCOBELLO has a Jesus Bible in every room.
He closes for the day
and lets me stay there
with everything open -- 
bar, kitchen, even his office.

Note:
'Arcobello' is Italian for rainbow.  I here use that term for the owner of the Arcobello Hotel/Restaurant in uppper Olivone.
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Restaurants sell sofst drinks for about 7 times the retail price per single bottle -- a 1.5 liter bottle of Rivella cost SF 2.50 in the Co-op Supermarket, and is sold for about 3.50 for 0.33 liter in most run-of-the-mill restaurants.
The markup on fruit juice, sold in restaurangts in 0.20 glass bottles, is even worse.
2.80 per glass is a cheap price, 2.50 per glass is a rarity.
A plate of pasta that could not cost more than a few francs for its ingredients is considered a bargain at SF 15, 5 times that.

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30 March 06:00

It appears that CNN has a strong pro-Bush bias.  They ran a feature on John Bolton, and almost everything they quoted was pro-Bolton .

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Re: IHT 15 Mar '05:

Armand Marie LeRoi invokes Wittgenstein's  'family resemblance' notion of criteria in associating race with clusters of characteristics rather than individual characteristics.

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INPUT 23 March '05 -- 12 Adar Bet -- 15 Safar -- 

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This land has taken almost all my money
but not the birds outside my window
at breaking day.

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Wherever I stay I try to be as considerate as possible of attendants and fellow guests, to ask only for what I need, to leave nothing undone that I can do myself, and when I can, to leave a place slightly better than it was when I arrived.  (Paying the hotel room bill is, of course, another matter.  But then, "It don't do nothing, it just sets there."

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The 2nd-to-last bracha in the Amidah -- 
This is (USA pop music, 1950s) "'HE''s got the whole world in his hands."

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As noted elsewhere:  The influence of Hebrew upon English etymology is much underestimated.  Onions, Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1970s) seems to ignore it.  But it may have been that monks sought a  strong intellectual connection with Jews.  Too, there may be much more Jewish influence on Christianity , at least through the "dark ages", than is acknowleged.  Eg, Carnivale may stem from Purim.

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Everyman will have his say today.  Rap for black proles, Blogs for the honkie arriviste, and the usual edious vehicles of the camp-followers of academia for "we happy few" <Shakespeare, one of the Richards or Henry's).

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A philosopher need say anything only once.  But like Kafka says, getting the Word out to hoi polloi is something else.

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A good-hearted (wo)man , honest in deed if not always speech, needs be a poor one, usually, and take what pleasure when and how he/she can , amidst the clamorous demands and negligent betrayals of "this wicked world" (PVK) of mostly rosh katans.

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Shatiya said to some young man,
You should treat her better -- 
I would.

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"What's wrong with this picture?":

He says
or so she hears
'Cross against the red light once or twice
 just to see how it feels
 to do what you would never do.'
I say
'I worry about what you say.'
He says
'If you do I don't have to.'

     (Feldis, 23 March)

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I leave them three of the most precious books in the world.
He seems to have said, 'But must you place them on my land -- like border stones.

(Notes:
I had in mind the border pillar at the base of the Golan Heights, about a half-kilometer from Kibutz HaOn, on the shore of the Sea of Galillee.

The books are:  HIK, Collected Sayings (Omega Press), Genesis, Interlinear (Rashi Chumash JPS 1952 edition, but I'm speaking only of Genesis Interlinear)

A good book of the paintings of Klee.

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The First Trustee of my Fund
sits all winter in Nevada
to watch the desert sun
one must suppose
shine on the gambling wheels.
This morning I explained to my friend
the hotel-ownder
that I might be late in paying
at which he seemed less happy.

      (Rhäzüns, 23 March '05 )

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The sun shines somtimes
hot on Switzerland,
so travelers drink water.
The Swiss buy water for a few cents
and sell it for a few dollars
to travelers.

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Lines written by the River Chur:

To pee in Suisse
costs fifty cents
and if you can't find fifty cents
or if the coin-machine's askance
then ye needs pee

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Input 22 March '05 -- 11 Adar II -- 14 SARFAR -- 

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Beside the sled-trail
a lady with two children
pee'd behind a bush 

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Get me the heart of a virgin
or build me a pyramid quick:
Now that I've learned how to live
why am I old.

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Downhill ski-ing is upper-class NASCAR.

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At a cheap Swiss Alp Hotel
a glass of bar soda_water costs 3.50 .
I leave a 50_cent tip
Reckon they need it.

   :"For 2_cents Plain"  (Title of an autobiography by Harry Golden, USA 1950's)

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Judaism is about being happy -- Chagall is the touchstone -- ; Christianity is about transcending poverty and unavoidable suffering -- this is "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" (Jesus said it) -- but it applies only to unavoidalbe suffering -- and that is "he who sits in the Suka in the rain is accounted a fool."

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(Sketch for a poem)

The Swiss wish everything in place
in space and time
but church-bells chime
X
The Swissworld still won't quite hold still.

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Condensed autobiography for his 50th Class Reunion:

I went to Shady HIll until I left in 1953 at the end of 7th grade.
I have since looked for an educatonal institution as clear, and a community as coherent.
I dropped in and out of grad schools (the ordinary-language approach of Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin to the pseudo-problems of "empiricist" epistemology), first for the NYC Student Peace Union '63--'65, where most of our picket lines were against continued USA involvement in the Vietnam War, and then for New Buffalo commune in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, north of Taos Pueblo.
I "returned" to neo_traditional religious Judaism through Haverat Shalom (Somerville, Massachusetts), and also became associated with the Sufi Order in the West (www.sufiorder.org ; Abode of the Message , New Lbanon NY, Zenith Camp , Olivone/Campra, TIcino, Switzerland.
In Israel I have rented a reinforced_concret bungalow at Kibutz HaOn, on the east shore of Lake Kineret directly below the Golan Heights, and at Moshav Mevo Modi'in, founded by R. Shlomo Carlebach, midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, with a distant view of the ocean, about a mile from the "West Bank".

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As James Pringle indicates (IHT 18 March '05), the USA has had an unwritten policy of allowing the torture of prisoners, at least since the Vietnam War.

There is little likelihood that torture will yield information that is true, timely, and relevant, especially if the prisoner was not merely "in the wrong place at the wrong time", ubt is in fact a trained terrorist.

So there seems little if any justificaiton for the piously jingoistic media platitude that such inhuman practices can be justified because they might in some conceiveable if highly improbable case save lives.

A civilized army, eg the Israel Defense Forces, will always act as humanely as practical, even at increased risk to its own soldiers.

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A spring day -- 
warm sun, cool air.
I watch her riding in the distance.

(Notes:

PVK, "a landscape of snow and ice"

USA popular song, 1950s:

"Come down, come down, from your ivory tower
 you'll find true love has its charms.
 It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower
 but warm, so warm in my arms."

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I find a Picasso book at the Sternhaus in Feldis.
Even in his teens he had control.
And his late work, done in the 1970s when he was in his 90s, seems the best.  Joy at leasxt -- the control of picasso -- which is merely sketched in his monochrome cubist period -- here it melded to the efflourescence of Matisse.

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Submitted to mimaamakim.org

(after a remark by R. Zalman Schachter, and also heard from Rinatya Nachman)


Jesus won't "let well_enough alone"
he has to have them rob the poorobx to buy him a white donkey
to put on his CV
for when at least he comes to town
across the Mt. of Olives
on Hoshana Raba
with everyone waving the lulav.
Nice try guy.
Everyone is crying out  "Hoshea Na"
Very bad timing.
Romans say, 'Must be Bar Kochba -- 
nail him.'
Things go to hell damned fast after that.

     (Rhazuns, Palm Sunday, 20 March '05 )

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Noblesse Oblige:

The relatively elegant Ratus Cafe Restaurant of Rhazuns
now offers a daily Workers'_'Menu' -- 
a fifteen_dollar_and_fifty_cents luch
served only in the stable.     [ stiva ]

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"A rainbow day -- laughting through tears"
Maybe that's where growing up is at -- 
just finding out how to do two things at once.

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What cruelty, what intolerance of natural diversit, especially of other specieis, mankind shows in its circuses.

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Campra and Feldis sit at the same height¨
in opposite cantons
on opposite sides of the mountain.
On Campra the sun does not shine
for 3 winter months,
but Felids has more sun
than anywhere else in the land
and so they catch and save it
and make it light thier lamps.
In Feldis everybody says hello.
In Camopra they stare and look angry 
(S.A.D.)
and all they say is, 'Go away'.

      (Rhazuns, 20 March '05)

     :Honest George Reconsidered

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The hotel owner's little girl
is trying to tell me something trivial
like 'When I ring my bicyle bell you come to breakfast.'
Has anyone ever spoken to me with such clear sincerity?

    (Trattoria Rhazuns, 20 March '05)

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  To Maya in the Mists of Zurich:

"And if you, love, would grant my wishes,
 bring me several NordSee Fishes."

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*NordseeFish Joke #2:
 
The Teacher escapes to the Railway Station 
for lunch
trailed by three pupils.
The teachers buys them a Nordsee Lax
imagining, perhaps, that it is Leviathan.

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Note for an IHT Survey:

Anything but another photo of Georgie Boy & his shit-eating grin.

This is an ineptly conceptualized, officiously designed and disingenuous survey,engineered to exploit rather than obtain feedback from your readership.

Show us anything except another photo of Georgie Boy with his shit-eating grin.

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Whatever their job, the Swiss, like the Israelis, are never servile.  They eschew the jacket-and-tie servile formality and (as do the Poles) the phony flattery of the USA.
Israelis do so because we are free, and freely joined in common cause.
The Swiss do so because they are rich and co-exist peaceably in freedom.
They have gained great power by avoiding war, as the USA, under Bushie, has lost it.

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We say farewell.
I sit by your river.
There are other rivers too.

      (Reichenau-Tamins, Spring Equinox)

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Maybe I'm a donkey -- 
If the way ain't right, I don't go.

     :Pour l'erection de son totempole

(Ref:  Pound, Mauberly, 'Pour l'election de son sepelchure' 

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Ehrmann:

Correct in all respects, of course, 
but Swiss -- 
he'll not let out an expansive gesture, hour, nor dollar.

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Re:  IHT 21 March '05 (Sent, IHT)

Nations which torture prisoners should not sit on the UN Human Rights Commission.  But why should that imply Cuba and not imply the Bushie USA.

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Sent IHT:

The Bushie's are bathetic anti-intellectual sadists.
They spend their sympathy on fetuses and human_vegetables, but withhold it from prisoners, the poor, the elderly, and the ill.

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For My Revised Autobiography:

I put on my longjohns in November
and took them off in March
on the vernal equinox
and cast them into the swiftly_flowing Rhine
to go to Germany
and wash up on the south shore
at Frankford.

(Note:  USA 40s:
"Oh they don't wear pants / in the sunny side of France"

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This is the land of running waters, which they seal and sell in plastic bottles, perpetually produced.

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ADDITIONAL INPUT -- 21 March '05 -- Spring Equinox -- 10 Adar Bet -- 13 Sarfan --
A sunny spring day in scenic downtown Chur East a/k/a Chur South -- 

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Bob Dylan:  "You're invisible [ but maybe a mis-speak for: 'visible'] now; you've got no secrets to confus.

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Imitations of Catullus:

Odi et amo
quaare id faciam, fotasse requiris
Nescio, sed fieri sentio
et exrucior

wish I knew how to flow
I don't know
X
and it wracks my soul

I hate her that love 'er
and so you may say
what do I do today
Don't know Joe
but I'm hit in the pit
etc.

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We follow the Old Testament nad ignore the new; they do the contrary.

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Sent, IHT, 19 March:

Contra Kristof (IHT 18 March '05) the USA radical right does not believe in anything nor anyone; it is the political expression of repressed hatred.

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An ageing man in a little job
sees me with a beard and says
"Weichachtsman, du kommst zu spat."

         (Feldris, March 19 '05)

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They see an old man.
I see myself as a child.

     :Senility reconsidered again

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In the middle of the Swiss Alps
the local speciality is tuna-fish.

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"My vegetable love should grow"
and be fed to a cow
or anyhow
an honest goat
or become clear and cool
"like morning" light "on the mountains"
in warming winter.

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Adjacent Cantons in Winter:

down the alley
up the valley
under the mountain
over the mountain
down the running river to the Rhine
and he don't have time to see me.

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Maybe he thinks I would undermine and remove you
(after of course I buy a house
and decorate our back yard
by moving that little mountain).

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They said you would need to ride away.
I did not know it would be in place.

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The Swiss proceed with but due speed:

At the end of winter
there are seventeen signs on the Feldis-Mutta chair-lift ticket-booth
and still not one that says
"PULL DOWN YOUR SAFETY BAR!"

     (19 March '05 )

(Sent feldis@feldis.ch , cc: s.gessler@bluewin.ch )

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Additional direct Input 17 March '05 -- St. Patrick's Day -- Patriots' Day -- (I think it was the day we (or y'all, more likely) pretended to be Indians, as we imagined them, and zapped the British as they retreated from what they thought was a successful show of force in response to reported stockpiling of weapons of minimal destruction, at the Concord Bridge, which remains a very pretty place to go canoe-ing.)
6 Adar Bet -- "Be Happy it's Adar"
              "Be Happy, It's Adar" 
and 9 Safar

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GAL-OR ON KARMIC EQUILIBRIA:

When Heaven creted Switzerland
it was so beautiful
that it was about to float back up.
So heaven put in it
the Swiss
who have a conscience
like their Ementhaler cheese
which is full of holes.

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   A SKIPOUT NOTE FROM ANDERMATT:

       "I asked my captain for the time of day;
        he got so damned mad he threw his watch away."

               (USA folk-song, apparently southern prison-camp, ca. 1920's)

Early in the morning
Honest George in his city shoes
drives up to the Alp
walks into his new restaurant
like a paranoid wrestler
arms loose, slow steps on bandy legs
and sweeps the well-swept floor.

After 3 months the sun is back in Campra.
I buy a plate of of reglued beef
on a mini-bed of pasty pasta white
and eat it in the sun
(once it was enough for a meal
but Honest George economizes
continually).

Next day
like a pressure-cooker about to blow
he says
Don't eat in the sun
it bothers the customers
to see you
so eat in the smoke
with us.

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Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner in "Cass Timberlane" -- the USA analog of the English stiff-upper-lip exemplary drama to teach the aristocracy to take its proper place in a proper traditional way -- an ideal more of service, or at least of harmlessness, than of dominance -- as Masterpiece Theatre , especially "The Golden Bowl" was for in in late adolescence -- 
So this was genuine acting, however understated, not like today's shlock sensationalism -- Spencer Tracy never even unbuttoned his sportscoat jacket, and such was part of his personna -- and of the high drama -- all that emotion contained iwthin a role of social responsibility.

I glance at mysef in the bathroom mirror, wild unkempt hair, and wonder at "the road not taken" (Robert Frost) and the oddity of the one I'mon -- and see how the <uSA is, in a real sense -- or rather was, for it is now become so grotesque -- my real country.

I glimpse too, the place, jaqam, that <i might have tried to hold in society.

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Sent JP 17 March 

A RETRACTION    or   ONE HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR

The monimination by George Bush Jr. of Paul Wolkfowitz to direct the World Bank proves that the latter did not plan the destruction of the World Trade Center.  But maybe he knows who did.  For as President Bus Hr. implied (CNN 17 March '05, 06:00), he has no other substantial qualificaiton for such a position.

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Sent JP 17 March '05

Y'all sure have shlocked up your Internet edition.

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Notes for a rap demo:

"Will the real Shim Shandy please stand up
 Will the real Shim Shandy please stand up "
Nope. / 2 / 3 /4 /
R half-bet I'm on the lam / M'am; bam de / lamb / man (if you / am / man )/

Another rhythem,like a scateboark stunt:

like 6/8, 2 triplets per bar   123 123 / 123 123 / 12r  R / rR  (ie, syncopated)

Mois je me / crois pas / ne crois pas / ne crois pas / 
ce que peut arri/ve arri/ve arri/ vey vey vey vey ar/rive
ce que veut etc. 

or get / stuck in any astrasl disaster that / masters you 

[I have to go back to input this when there's no radio on jamming my recollection.  The bourgois should be required to raise their hands before speaking public.

If you / wonder where I'm coming from 

"You're / talking to a /TOURist, whose /motives are the / purest /"

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The IHT reports that Bush wants to ammend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ("Atoms for Peace") to exclude the creation of facilities to produce nuclear electric energy.  On this point Bush is surely right.  CNN imlies that this Wis Iran's excuse for a program obviously internally justifiable only as a precursor to building nuclear weapons.

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Re:  IHT 15? Mar '05

On the issue of same-sex marriage the conservatives are obviously correct.
First of all, there's nothing wrong with two old maids living together, and if the skinny old things want to share a bed in winter, why not.  Although legalizing Holy Buggery is an Abdomination.

The meaning of the term 'marriage' is a unon between a man and woman (or women, in more sensible societies, for why should a gentleman put his ageing lady through all that one more time when there's no lack of fresh young things to bear it) , so laws and policies mandating cetain benefits for 'married' couples intend the term in its ordinary sense.

Others may voluntarily joing analogous relationships, but do not thereby become entitled ot these benefits.

Others may use the term in a new sense, and that sense may in time become common usage, but the legal implications of the term remain those in accord with themeaning at the time the legislation was enacted.  As civil marriage was insituted between men and women, only new legislation  -- nor regulations, which merely implement legislation -- can extend it.




 




              
 Entries from about 21 Feb '05

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About selling arms to China -- defensive of course.  Against whom
or what is China defending itself.  Wrathful Tibetan deities?

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   dancing on lillypads

Notes:
Water-lillies on the Concord River -- the American analogue of
lotus 
Cf. PVK, beneath the surface of the water, all the roots of the
lotus flowers are intertwined -- 
Shiva dancing
At that Frankfurt meditation center they have a painting of Shiva
as a naked chick, only with extra arms
At New Buffalo there was a chick named Shiva, who was not
unavailable until she found Jesus
She used to walk outdoors naked sometimes
Once she had shaved , and I looked over across the courtyard and
said, I didn't know it went up so high.  She repeated my words,
with a bit of scorn.    
As I've said -- after she found Jesus, I remarked to her, I gues I
should have waited in line.  She replied, a bit sadly, there was
never any line.

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Re: IHT 8 March (Knowlton)

It seems clear that, despite Rice's loyal endorsement, John Bolton
is not even a statesman much less a diplomat, but merely a
mouthpiece for the ideologues for the Republican lunatic right
wing.

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The Jerusalem Post International Edition, a weekly is practically
the only hardcopy source of hasbara abroad, with the possible
exception of the USA.  It seems to arrive on newstands about 2
weeks after the news it reports, and seems increasingly filled up
with fluff rather than news and analysis of political
developments. And the Jerusalem Post Internet edition,
www.jpost.com , though a daily which seems to have at least all
the basic articles, is so top-heavy with ads etc. that it is
nearly unreadable even with a broadband connection, let alone a
telephone connection.  
I have found the Jerusalem Post on sale in Switzerland only in the
Central Train Station in Zurich, and davka at a shop in Zernez,
the town abutting the Swiss National Park.  And apparently the
Post has now discontinued without notice production of
distribution of its International Edition, for no edition later
than that of 4 Feb '05 has been seen.  The Jerusalem Report, which
has become less fluffy as the Jerusalem Post has become more so,
is also not available in Switzerland, as far as I have seen.

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Notebook undated, ca. 1 March '05

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Realp, one stop west of Andermatt, at the base of the Furka Pass
road, seems very peaceful.  The Furka Pass road is closed in
winter but maintained with a piste machine by the hotel at the top
of the pass, which makes it ideal for winter hiking -- a solid
snow base with no automobiles.  It must be a lovely place from
which to see the stars.

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MICHEAL JACKSON AS MODERN KABUKI 

Watching a feature on Micheal Jackson -- 

thinking of PVK on music, =pvk7xmus.* -- music making new forms
for each age -- 

and all that video ?reptec? -- 

Michael Jackson is a great artist, though in a form and with s
language -- an interactive kinetic iconography, like a ?modern?
kabuki, that I do not understand and do not like and can mabe
learn to understand but will not like -- 
                
Michael Jackson is a new art form, at Rite of Spring broke into
music , tho Rimsky-Korsakoff too was a great colourist -- and
maybe he and Stravinsky are the first great colourists since
Beethoven quit writing symophonies -- 

Micheal Jackson's  personna is part of his iconography, 
and as some commentators indicated, the show is still going on,
but it has degenerated -- 
the audience is now taking the aggressive rather than passive role
-- 

Well, I am doing sometihg similar with my personality, 
though for an audience of only a few, 
mostly me and a few beings who exist mostly only in my mind -- 

And behind that all something real is going on -- 

and in back of THAT I am a person with some real pleasures --
winter hiking mostly -- a few muted loves, and many sadnesses -- 

and a few ongoing achievements 
that mean little to me, 
though they are now my raison d'etre, 
and almost all I have to hold onto -- 
                  
Only wakening to see the midnight pornie ads do I feel real -- at
least that expresses something I really want, if only in
imagination, not merely something I think I should want -- 

So this anarchic Website is my art, but what it really looks like
I don't have the vantage point to see -- I'm in it, not above it -
- 

On a lower level, 2-dimensional as it were, there are some clear
moments -- a small percent of the poems, most of the Letters-to-
the-Editor -- 

and this is back to my 1960s psychedelic insight,
"Each person creates one artistic work of genius -- his life"
Well, as Pound says in one of his imitations from the Chinese
Anthology, "I can still eat" -- and a shot of Canadian Club,
swirled slowly in a brandy glass, still refreshing -- "and ginger
be hot in the mouth" (Shakespeare, one of the Henry's if I recall,
"cakes and ale")


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Note on the verse at the conclusion of Shaharit -- the 4th of 6
things to remember -- how you tempted the LORD                     
                             
Nudnik'd in the wilderness -- This is "it is assur to rely on a
miracle" --  
and it is PVK, man is co-creator
and from Islam it is "take on step toward Us and We will take 100
steps toward you" -- 
I add:  but you must take the first step
And Cf. Mao-Tse-Tung, I think quoting an old Chinese saying -- a
journey begins with a single step.

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Red notebook:
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As A.R. Shamds-ud Doha wrote (Letters, IHT 26 Feb '05),
realpolitik entails that it is couterproductive to demonize
Hizbollah and similar terrorist organizations, eg al-Qaeda.  

Unlike the homicidal psychopaths of Nazi Germany, they are not
evil.  Terrorism is a tactic of warfare -- albeit an immoral and
most unchivalrous one.  It was used by the USA in the bombing of
Hiroshima -- with arguable justification, since if Japan  would
not otherwise have surrendered than it may have cost fewer lost
lives, at least of US soldiers, than would otherwise have been
lost in the planned land invasion.  And in warfare the primary
existential if not necessarily ethical obligation of a combantant
is to minimize loss of life ot its own citizens, and not
necessarily of the citizens of its opponents.

The bombing of Nagasaki was also am act of terrorism, and seems to
have been unjustifiable.  The British-led firebombing of Dresden
was also primarily an act of terrorism, with little other military
justification, and little justification as psychologic warfere --
tyrants, especially than thanatophilic maniacs who led Nazi-ism, 
are rarely moved by the suffering of their own people. 

In comparsion, the occasional Palestinian terrorist attack --
blasting nuts and bolts etc. through the bodies of a busload of
noncombatants, mostly women, children, and elderly -- those too
poor or infirm to take taxis or walk -- or a group of teenagers
out for a weekend celebration -- killing enough to get a good spot
in the daily news, and leaving a much larger number with
irreperable wounds, physical and psychologic -- are relatively
minor, though no less indefensible, acts of evil.  

Israel -- and the USA, if in fact it really is under attack in a
low-grade quaisi-war -- although it suffered only one terrorist
attack, albeit a spectacular one and, unlike Israel, has not
suffered another terrorist attack in the past 3 years -- should
not demonize, but rather negotiate an accommodation with the
tyranical sponsors of terrorist groups which demonstrably it
cannot destroy.  Of course such negotiation entrails moral
compromise, but you can't free all the people all the time.

It is still not clear who planned the technically brilliant
destruction of the World Trade Center.  The Bush Administraion
came to the rather quick conclusion that it was a dropout Saudi
Arabian playboy living in a cave in Afghanistan. 
Of course killing over 2000 noncombatants is ethically despicable
and an infinite sin, if not precisely evil, but there have been
greater infinities.  And amongst terrorist tactics in warfare one
may note the USA's toxic defoliation of South Vietnam, carpet
bombing of North Vietnam, and apparently routine torture of
captured civillians suspected of supporting the Vietcong.

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Buy Swiss train tickets only as needed.
Once I got a round-trip ticket, used the return half the next day,
and was told it was only valid on the same day.

I had planned to go to Germany for a Christmas retreat.  At the
last minute I got cold feet, having gone to Zurich and bought a
round-trip ticket.  I really didn't want to leave the white
mountains from the brown lowlands.  And also, I was afraid that I
might not get back into Switzerland again, since the regulation,
though apparently little enforced, is that even citizens of the
USA can stay for only 3 months at a time, then must leave for at
least one month, then may return for another stay of up to 3
months, but can only do this once a year.                          
                 
In Zurich I saw the train to Chur and wished I was on it.  But I
decided I should get on the train to Germany anyhow, in case this
was just traveller's nostalgia.  I said, if I still felt that way
on the train, I could return.  So I still felt that way, and got
off at Schaffhausen, relieved that I had not yet crossed the
border, and returned.
Back in Chur I was told that I could only redeem the ticket in
Zurich.
It turned out that I could only redeem the unused portion of the
ticket if the conductor at the last stop had endorsed the ticket.
Even though the trip was segmented by two train-changes, and it
was clear that only the first segment had been used.   
That can only be a safeguard against those who hide in the loo,
complete the trip, and then present the unstamped ticket.
On some short rides on long trains it is reasonable, but on long
rides, where the conductor will surely have time to pass all
passengers, it is not.
Also, there is no reduction in buying a round-trip ticket, nor in
buying one's ticket before boarding the train.

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In the reading room of the old-world hotel
high above snowline
two stocky men from Italy have left a video
titled "Whoop in her behind"
as if to say
so vile is the stuff of procreation
and they who take and bear it 
that it should only be forced
into "the place of excrement".

:Analek on Skis
     or
 'Sexual preference' reconsidered.

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The right to privacy in public places is circumscribed by the
rights of others to privacy in such places.
So one may not say nor do things that could reasonably be deemed
an offense by who notice them, evem though they were not the
address -- direct nor surreptitious -- of such remarks. 
 
              
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Judaism should reinstate polygamy.  
Better that a man should take a young second wife upon whom to
bear his later children, and leave the old one in peace to be a
housekeeper.

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The Me Generation is most protective of feelings, but only my
feelings, not thine.  My feelings must not be impinged upon to
make space for thine.

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The Swiss are smellycheese gourmets.
this is analogous to wine'tasters, who are like string-quartet
fans.
Smellycheese makes USA yellowcheese kindergarten, and even Israel
goat and sheep cheeses only junior high school.
When smellycheese gourmets graduate, they become mushroom
rustlers.

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Notes on the pending 10 commandments Supreme Court case:

One plaintiff demands removal of a copy of the 10 commandments
placed by Cecil B. deMille on public land to promote his movie of
the 10 Commandments --                    
-- This makes a very weak case.  One suspeects that the Supreme
Cout agreed to hear it, not because it poses a clear constituional
issue, but only to knock it down to block the way for stronger
cases to be heard.  I mean, the four reactionary judges are
completely politically corrupt, they do not make judicial
determinations, but merely twist and fit the law to further the
agenda of the reactionaries who put them in their sinecure.
-- The only issue is whterh the state shouuld hae allowed this
private gift to be placed on public land.  And alos, the inent
seems to ?fit?.

-- Freedom of religious expression is a riight of indivudllas, not
of goverments.
(I had elsewhere argued, against those who suppose the Palestinian
people must have their own state, that self-determination is a
right of individuals, not collectives, and indeed that self-
determination of the collective may inhibit self-determination of
the individual.  And indeed, such has been so in almost all
instances of de-colonialization.  Only India seems to have come
out a democracy, the African colonies all became tyrannies, and
the mid-East, except for Israel, and the Far East too.  At best
there is the westernized enlightened monarchy of Jordan, but the
previous two Jordanian kings were exceptional people.)

As for 'ceremonial deisim' -- which is something only for
hypocrites, not sincerely religious nor sincereley secular persons
-- this is not a possible intent of eitherr religious nor secular
law -- except for the pro forma prayers at the innaguaration of a
President -- but merly an attribute of manuipulative politicians.ù

The mitzvot and halachot are analogous to legislative law and its
implementing regulations, respectively, but essentially are not
that.
Religious 'law' is necessary, not arbitrary, and is freely
accepted on 'faith', not begrudingly as the edict of one's master.

Also, the Constitution intended to forbid only sectarian state
religous expression, not expression by the state of practially
uiversal religious values.  Placement of a crucifix in a state
building would not be allowed, but placement of the 10
commandments, since the USA is practically entirely Judeo-
Christian -- or was -- would seem permissable.
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Shabhabudin said, the descending soul may enounter ascending souls
of say, a thief, and be influenced by it.
That starts from HIK -- The Soul Whence and Whither I think -- but
it goes too far.
It would contradict the Shma, by introducing evil into the
heavenly spheres.
And it introduces contingency into the realms of Heaven.  But
contingency inheres only in the earthly realm, not in the heavenly
spherews.

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Besides the pornography of violence, there is the pronography of
illness -- all those USA TV shows of murder -- Sam Peckinpah
carried it to an extreme in "Straw Dogs" -- and all those
Emergency Room shows -- a prurient interest in extrene experience
, romanticized -- more soft-core than hard-core,  Urban anomie
indeed.
But of course not one's own extreme experience.

So the abortion issue is a popular -- a projection and ensuing
condemnation upon others of the desire to abort one's own
pregnancy.  "If I have to go through it, so does she."

Crime shows are one step from sadism, and emergency room shows are
on step from necrophilia.

Pornography of sex has its sadistic side and aspect -- but is
relatively mild compared to pornography of violence and of
illness.

Though little pornography portrays sex as really mutual -- as
joyouss -- or even with an emotive aspect.  Pornography of sex is
mostly mechanistic -- as are the others too.

As for all those dogwatch teasers for telephone sex -- they seem
based on the assumtion that they will arouse the viewer to the
sympathetic point of unappeasable tension, so he willhave o choice
but to dial the paypal number listed.  For they all cut off just
as the moment of truth seems impending.  But from my experience,
most men would salute the TV weatherperson if she bent forward to
display a warmfront.

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The ultra-orthodox wear peyes to distinguish themselves from the
goyim.  The modern orthododox shave and waer neckties to
distinguish themselves from the ultra-orthodox and to emulate the
goyim, as a sign that they too can be bought.  The Israel militant
secularists eat ham to distinguish themselves from all the
religious.                                   

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RECOMMENDED LODGING IN SWITZERLAND:

ANDERMATT, Gasthaus zum STERNEN
Tel:  041---887--1130

ZURICH:	
LYDIAHeim, Leonhard-Str 13, 8001 Zurich
TRel:  044--252-4127
Single apr. SF 70 pp per night
This is run by a group of Danish nuns, but with no religious
overlay, not even a cross in the rooms.  It is a 10 minute walk
from the Omega Sufi Center , and a 10 minute walk from the main
train station.  A very quiet clean ambience.                   

2nd choice would be the IYH Youth Hostel, for which one takes the
#7 Tram away from the train station to Morgenthaler St., about a
45 minute walk up the lake and then uphill 10 minutes.
Properly run, with food internet and helpful staff.
Single rooms about SF 79 with minimal amenities.

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CNN is incredibly thin -- in content -- almost no information in
the news bits -- maybe 5% of what's in an IHT article on the same
topic -- thin in form -- very few real news stories amongst the
fluffy features it presents each hour -- and in style -- a lot of
vacuous chatter, especially by the whetherperson, whom even I find
nearly incomprehensible -- so much chatter packed about the
information that I can barely dig it out -- not to mention that
the fashionably dressed weatherperson always stands in front of
the map, so her tits tend to occlude the warmfront -- and she's
apt to speak in British -- and sometimes even with an underclass
accent, which though no more abnormal than an overclass accent --
"if I were any more Br-itish I couldn't speak at all" -- still
should not be let outside rap songs -- and also mindless blather
by the anchorman -- 
-- often the weatherperson in partiuclar sshows poor articulartion
and rushed delivery, often an off-center accent, so I must
frequently strain to catch what's said  -- so this is quite
inadequate for international English listners.  And anyhow, the
standard is American English, not any longer British, let alone
plebian British English, which is the intermational standard. 
rather than normal American English, tho that's the international
dialect nowadays 

-- too, I have heard a sort of petty back--biting in the apparently
requisite verbal by-play between London anchorperson and on-site
reporter.  
Needed to show that the anchorperson is really alive, and has a
mind, rather than being merely a "talking head" or computer
simulation.  Rather as cum-shots were deemed requisite in porno
films, as if the viewer must be reassured that this was actual not
simulated bonking, albeit with an onastic resolution

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"Go, go, where you go
it makes no difference where you go
the LORD is at your side"
     (Hebrew, translation from a Psalm of David)

"what the difference where I roam
snow-capped mountains are my home"

Colorado Mountain Club song, 1950s.

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In the lst-class railway carriage
the lst-class English couple's 2 children
are chattering incessantly.
Each remark strikes a pose
like fashion-models on a catwalk
as if to say,
'Oh, how cute am I.'
One childed is named Pixie.
The rich can be pixies
for which the poor must pay.

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Add to a rap lyric:

Dundass, dumbed ass, double-dumb Dundass.

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Skiers in Zermatt at High Season:

Cattle on holiday
or moonwalk dropouts, they       
ride up in gondolas
and go down the Bullied Piste so fast
that they don't have time
to glance at the Matterhorn.

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END RED NOTEBOOK.  ZOWIE FOR HOWIE.

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Notes from Omega Center, Zurich

www.sufismus.ch          info     frawati@sufismus.ch
www.sufiorden.de
www.sufiorden.at
www.centrum-universel.com
www.zenith-institute.com
BUT I THINK THE CORRECT ADDRESS IS:
www.zenithinstitute.com
www.pirvilayat.org
www.petama.ch   (Sufi Bewegung)
                                                     
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I suspected that she was indulging in pre-marital intercourse.  I
would not ordinarily be priggish on such matters, but in this case
the potential wedding was mind.

And so we had pre-marital intercourse.  Her wedding, not mine.

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HORSE NOTEBOOK
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HIK "A carving for revenge is like a craving for poison"

Old Chinese saying:  "Revenge is a dish best tasted cold."

Steve says:  One may seek revengve if it will rectify the
injustice of which one's personal slight was an instance.

At the Andermatt Bahnhof restaurant I ordered a liver dumpling
soup, which had become rather a staple of mine, and a house salad,
which is served with some sort of creamy sauce and is fit for the
less discriminating birds.  The salad was served after I had
finished the soup, and was about to leave.  I sent it back.  They
insisted on charging for it.  When I objected, the cook -- chef is
not quite the term -- gave me back the money, and told me not to
come back again.  I shall ask that he be sacked, for 3 reasons: 
(1a) a customer may almost always send back a dish, (1b) a
restaurant may almost never refuse service to a customer, and (1c)
if a single restaurant serves a public facility, that restaurant
has the character of a public utility, not a private business.     
     
Personally, I owuld say that baeing refused a place to buy a cup
of coffee at a cold railroad station is a form of discrimination
which shouild not be tolerated nor left unchallenged.

Of course one may imagine exceptions -- (1a) -- the customer is
clearly acting so capriciously that the usual business principle
of courtesy, which applies especially to restaurants, "the
customer is always right" [ to which one Israeli waitress
retorted, "and that principle is always wrong"] does not apply,
and (1b) and (1c) the customer acts in a manner so disruptive that
it interferes with the business of the restaurant and/or disrupts
the privacy of other customers.  But the possibility of exceptions
does not nullify a rule, for rules are general principles that
cover ordinary cases, not logical statements that are negated if a
single exceptional instance shows them to lack validity (ie, not
to apply to all cases.)


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The Bushie's are not idealists, they are fanatic ideologues.

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I bet Disney's C.S. Lewis movie does a quick complete belly-flop. 
The Chornicles of Narnia, which I've read of but not in, are
crypto-Christian neo-mythology.  As such they can be expected to
antagoniue both literalistic Christians (those noisy folk who keep
Bush  propped up) and ideologic secularists.

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Sharansky seems to have described the Bushg administration when he
defines a "fear society" as those which "always seek external
enemies as a means to self-preservation".  (IHT 23 Feb '05
(Cohen))

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It should go without saying that Israel does not intentionally
kill Palestinian civillians, except that, perhaps following the
dictates of political fashion if not correctness, Roger Cohen
insinuates it (IHT 23 Feb '05).

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Roger Cohen, maybe trying to live down his patrynom, asks,
rhetorically (IHT 23 Feb '05), "what should be done when one
person's freedom -- say that of an Israeli settler -- bevcomes
another person's prison."  But the opposite example is more
accurate.  It is the settlers, not the Palestinians, who for
demonstrably justified fear of attack must live behind barbed wire
fences and venture out only at risk of life limb or internal
organs.  And although Israel occasionally restricts Palestinian
movement with curfews, and into or through areas of Jewish
settlement with roadblocks, this is done only to minimize the
currently demonstrated risk of terrorist attack.

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Today, 9 March,  Honest George has locked up all the potties but
one.

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The Moshav has asked, as a minor technicality, for a NIS 10,000
Security Deposit.  Security against what ain't clear.  Launching
Katuyshas from the roof perhaps.  I mean, this is a 3-room
reinforced concrete bungalow trashed by the previous resident, to
which I've made a number of improvements over the past few years.
Looks like I've made enough improvements that someone's cousin
wants to take it over.  Last time a security deposit was returned
the stars stood still.       

The original contract was drawn up by a lawyer, after many
revisions.  One clause stated that the contracting parties agreed
that if any clause in the contract contradicted implications of
existing regulation, the former would be binding.

Uncle Peter's lawyer once put a clause in the Irrevocable Trust
Agreement stating that if the recipient were to challenge the
Turst in court, the Trust would be dissolved.

Well, a legal instrument cannot presuppose its own legality.

So I might add the following clauses to the contract: 

I agree to renew my contract to rent #101 for one year, under the
conditons which prevailed in the previous year.  If any portion of
this contract contradicts existing law or regulion, I agree to be
bound by the latter, portions of this contract notwithstanding.  
Except for rent I do not undertake to make any lump-sum payments
to the Moshav, temporary nor permanent, except for duly determined
gratuitious damage.

If this stastement conflicts with any portion of this contract, I
undertake to deem the former binding upon me.   

In case of disputes over the applicability of a clause, the
contracing party shall deem himself responsible only to those
sections which he has freely signed in binding English
translation.

A section signed under threat of homelessness hsall not be deemed
to have been freely signed.

Doubletalk deserves double-backtalk.

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"Jerususalem, Jerusalem, sing for the night is o'er.
 Hosana, in the highest, hosana for ever       mower."

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NOTEBOOK 2, 25 March '05

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When I was old
my mother would sometimes say
'I want my mother -- 
I know that's odd to say
but I want my mother. '
Now I'm older
Sometimes I'm tired
really tired
but that's ok
I know what I need -- 
to go home
to my parents house
and just let them take care of me
for a few weeks
for no money.
But then I pass a mirror
and look in
and I'm old.

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Notes for Trust:

I owuld suggst then that the value of the Trust be evaluated, not
in dollars, but rather, or additionally,  by its purchasing powers
in the several countries in which I live (Switzerland, Israel,
maybe USA) or in a stable currency (the SF is stable, I don't know
of any other currency that is -- although the shekl has been
stable agains tthe dollar -- although there was cointnual talk of
an eventual dealuation when I was last in Issrael, up to August
'04 .

On thast basis,it would seem taht, apart from queasions of
investment in foreign stocks bonds obligations and funds, that
interest from such investments be paid directly into my Swiss
Account (!)

( it does cheer me up a bit on grey  days, as they may well
imagine back on the Moshav, to walk into my private vault and gaze
at those stacks of gold bouillon, and sometimes wriggle my toes in
a pile of doubloons -- I did buy a gold Swiss watch recently, and
carry it about in a vest pocket -- has almost enough gold on it to
make an earring for a small mosquito -- or at least a
nanomosquito, of the type the USA is developing at Fort Detrick)

in the applicable currncy, rather than in dollars.

[N.B. -- Does that make any differnece.]
These notes are just top-of-the-head, I have no feel for even the
most basic economics.  No, that does does not matter, as long as
it is not held in dollars, but immediately converted to SF.  But
it is important that the principal be in a stable foreign currency
and that interest be paid in a stable foreign currency.  

The following notes are copied backwards from my notebook:


in particular home mortgages.  Many homeowners hold floating-rate
mortgages.  As these [float rates ] rise, their peroperty becomes
less vasluable, ie costlier to maintain out of the clutches of the
Repossessor."  

So in short, the market value of Trust Hodlings in Realty Funds
would be expected to deteriorate (subject to specific holdings of
the Fund)

Tom Friedman implies:
In the past 4 years the dollar has deteriorated from ( 1Euro=1$) 
to (1.5Euro=1$).
He writes, "Some analysts believe it needs to fall another 20
percent before it stablilizes."
He adds, quoting former Clinton Administration Secretary of
Commerce Rothkopf:  "'Given the number of people who have
refinanced their homes with floating-rate mortgatges, the falling
dollar is a kind of Sword of Damocles, getting closer and closer
to our heads.'" 
"And with any kind of sudden market disruption -- caused by
anything from a terror attack to signs that a big country had
gotton queasy about b uying dollars -- the bubble could burst in a
very unpleasant way."

Friedman quotes R. Heimats, Vice-President of Goldman Sacks, "43%
of U.S. Treasury bills, bonds, and notes are not held by
foreigners."

So I would urge the Trust to divest U.S. Bonds.

Friedman notes that as the dollars falls, decreased foreign demand
for dollars will force the U.S. Treasury to raise interest rates,
because the U.S. is now depenednet on contnuing foreign purchase
of (deteriorating) U.S. government bonds.

Increased interest rates for government bonds will cause incred
interest in other instruments.                            

1)  As the dollar falls -- Tom Friedman IHT 25 Feb says some say
another 20% -- and indicates that it has fallen 1/3 in in 4 years,
from 1Euro=1$ to 1.5Euro=1œ -- then U.S. Treasury bonds will
become less valuable -- both in purchasing power of principal and
interest (which also applies to any instrument valued in and
paying in US$) and in market value if sold.

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The Realp--Oberwald tunnel is 20 minutes long.  There should be
illuminated murals in long train tunnels -- psycholoticalla it is
quite oppressive.  At least one every 5 minutes.  Or better, an
illuminated running diorama or at least schematic of what one is
passing under.

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NOTEBOOK 25 Feb '05 

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Unsent Letter to the Swiss Daily Blick or whatever it is:   

On behalf of the USA, I would like to apologize to the good people
of Switzerland for our having put George Bush Jr. "in your face"
during his PR tour of Germany.  His TV pose of boyish innocence is
a bit hard to stomach for more than a few minutes a year.

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In addition to memorizing all the US state capitals in my 11th
grade U.S. History class, making sulfuric acid in Chemistry class,
making wooden and metal tables in shop -- I do regret that I did
not take auto mechanicsw -- but was for vocs -- the preumably dumb
kids who wer expected to go into some semi-skilled vocation rather
than become professionally unskilled college students -- in those
days, nice girls and even most nice boys did not change their own
tires, much less spark plugs.                             

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She was a good hiker -- "who floated up trails like a red-maned
horse" I wrote, thinking of a Franz Marc painting, although
Claudia read it and remarked that it was not all that flattering
to be likened unto a horse -- oh cow-plop chicklet, so write your
own poems -- anyhow I concluded that she would be good breeding
stock and fell in love accordingly.  Later, Jennifer Leighton --
her name slipt my mind a few months ago, but memory, like an aged
family retainer with Alzheimer's, eventually serves.

The evening <i arrived -- essentially at my own invitation -- she,
as planned went out to see a guy who banged her tarbour once a
week.

Although I would have preferred that she she stay in, she
continued this throughout my visit.  I retrospec, I now suspect
she was having premarital intercourse.  I would not ordinarily be
priggish about such things, except that in this case the potential
marriage -- if only of the common-law sort -- in question was
mine.

One would have supoosed that a musician from the Mystic East -- an
underdeveloped  neighborhood near the Boston waterfront -- had
transscended such matters, but on the other hand, Indian
civilization has continued for many millenia.

I had resolved to do half my halachic duta and marry her -- in
that sequence, of course --  at least for a year or so.  

We did try once, though she was a bit annoyed upon gazing up into
my eyes and realizing that I had done so again.  However, she did
assure me that we could try again the next month, if I had not
returned to the landing zone to be part of history.

Meanwhile, she went with me to the public libray to withdraw a few
books on child-rearering.

The next month began as usual, to her rather vindictively stated
relief.  As I prepared to take my leave, upon the recommendation
of a very polite young couple of police offiers who had stopped by
her kitchen for a morning chat -- we were sitting there reflecting
upon the earlier events of that morning, when the doorbell rang,
and I was inclined to say, "It's the executioners dear -- will you
get it or shall I."
In any event, her farewell words were, "Perhaps I should have let
you go."  But that was nonense, I always make my own decicions. 
Entirely.

"What's wrong with this picture."  Besides X more from from a
billiard-table to multi-causal partial final-effect model of
causality -- (agent/mechanistic, purposive/determinative) of
course.

As I say, she was taken with the pagan fantasy that a woman should
have many children without being sure of the father of any,
paternity suits aside.  And besides, the New Germany gave 8 months
paid maternity leave, and she was rather bored with her job as a
librarian.

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I surf the satellite TV -- about 50 channels -- almost all alike,
at least with the sound off.  
Hotels should offer bedside earphones with their understandardized
remote controls, most of which are incomprehensible, especially if
one doesn't look at them -- which is the way one most naturally
uses them, since one looks out at the TV, not down at the remote
control.
The TV listings occur only in the Sunday newspaper, not the daily
papers.  So one has to surf fast, maybe only 5 seconds to each of
the 50 or so stations.
Movie DVDs have submenus for the languatge of your choice, so why
not TV too.  At least with a choice of 4-language subtitles.  But
in Switzerland, which is tri-lingual plus English (English being
acknowleged almost everywhere else as the lingua franca, and
little more imperialistic than Rome was with Latin as lingua
franca for a millenium) it ain't done, not even on the news-shows,
not even the two international news shoes (CNN and BBC).
    Switzerland, by-passed by history, clings snobbishly to a
disdain for the USA, even though we have long since learned not to
eat peas with a butter knife, nor sneeze into the potted plants. 
Heck, we don't even spit tobacco juice at the dinner table without
first opening the door.  Not often anyhow.   So roll over Henry
James and take Daisy Miller with you.  And the same goes for your
lapdog T.S. Eliot.

Yet the Swiss make their living laundering world-wide dirty money,
and are building a 57 mile south-north tunnel to make themselves a
superhighway for international trade and truckery.

so the only soundless shows I stop on are either those with an
obvous and interesting plot, or those with noticeable visual
value.  And I rarely find any visual composition on the screen --
tho that's something taken as required in many movies.

Anyhow, impenetrable porno meets both criteria. 

But darned near nothing else does.  I've never seen art, ballet,
or even plays, and only one opera, and only once a classical music
concert.   In Boston amd New York we always had one public-service
educational TV channel, subsidized by the state government, but
not so in Switzerland.

Also, TV shoes should have a little ID in a corner saying what
they are, color-coded for language.  Otherwise I can't tell CNN
from any other soap opera.  Because one usually surfs with the
sound off -- and that should be a required courtesy in hotels.

Also, many movies seem to have been made for large screen, and so
must be shortened to fit the TV screen.  There should be some
algorithm that will let them be displayed full-screen.

As for the remote control, this must be evident to touch, so one
does not have to look away from the sreen.  Especially if one is
viewing from bed "in the wee small hours of the morning", with no
other source of light, that one might beguile insomina and fall
asleep to the TV.

There are just a few basic controls -- Mute , as a toggle (this is
the most important), volume down, volume up, surf forward, surf
backward.  Those controls should be clearly placed and tactiley
distinct (as they are on some remote devices.)

Also, hotels might affix the remote control ona cable to the TV. 
Both to safeguard against theft, and because I'm always loosing
the thing in the bed-covers.  Harder to hold onto than a condom.

The last pornygirl, like a monring star, blinks away in breaking
day, having shown more -- variety, sincerity, integrity, human
interest, traditioanl values, and relevance to our everyday lives
-- than CNN, which seems to rerun the samee prepackaged news clips,
apparently from the Bushie PR Department, for 24 hours.

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In my youth, we learned many songs, some of which, in retrospect,
one might well have lived without:

"Oh a hunting we will go / we'll catch a little fox and put it in
a [or: in her] box and then we'll let her go.
And when we're up we're up / and when we're down we're down / and
when we're only half-way up we're neither up nor down."
A traditional English gang-bang the peasant girls song.

As-it-is-said, "don't go off half-cocked"

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OK, THAT'S THAT NOTEBOOK INPUT

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I attended Shady Hill from kindergarten and left in 1953 at the
end of 7th grade, having completed my essential education, and
have spent the ensueing years looking for an intellectual
environment as coherent and a community as harmoious.  I am still
trying to find out what I will be when I grow up.

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Because in Hebrew and Arabic the same character is used for  F and
P , the Sufi Order is shadow'd by the Soupy Order.
The Sufi Order is clear and clean, the Soupy Order is a misty
dawn. 

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10 March '05 -- 29 Adar Aleph -- "Be Hetzi Happy It's Adar Aleph"

Honest George has shrunk the rubber croissantes.                

A new brand, dependably stale, with a minimal squirt of something
that once resembled cherry jelly, weighs 42 grams.
I never though to see what the old brand weighed.
Even in Switzerland, where a shot of booze is marked and measured
out to the decliter, it has not hitherto been necessary to confirm
that croissantes are sold by true weight.
The package is so small that I'd need two pairs of reading glasses
to read the 4-lingual fine print detailing the manuals of organic
chemistry that list the ingredients in these synthetic
croissantes. 

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Re: IHT 10 Mar (Phillips)

The USA must re-assert its right to to order any foreign airline
flying over the USA to land.  That applies in particular to
airlines considered to be operating under unsafe conditions.
An airplane is always a potential danger to the people of whatever
country it is flying over.

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It seems that U.S. checkpoints in Iraq are ineptly managed.  In
Israel fixed checkpoints are preceeded by warning signs, and then
by zig-zag barriers that force any approaching vehicle to slow to
nearly a crawl.  Israel, unlike the USA, really is under terrorist
attack, and responds in ways that minimize casualtis to civillians
under the rule of the opposing side.

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The Russians left
a pot of chicken
that I put in the avalanche shelter
at the back of the Refugio
to which the inner door is now locked
as the outer door has frozen shut
and is blocked with drifted snow
so the chicken can stay there
until the spring thaw.

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Waiter, my soup is lukewarm:

The Swiss are digging a tunnel
57 miles under the mountains
so trains can go through
2 hours faster.         

:miles or kilometers, the soup is still cool

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Is anyone anywhere steering this ship:

One from whom I'd hoped for leadership
is now spouting shtuyot
 subtler emotions chopped into cubist analyticiy.
 gratuitious reconceptualization generating unnecessary paradoxes.
playing with heresy
like a lake skater
with the thin edge ice.       


I walk out of the talk
to mincha
an hour in wet blowing snow
to a concrete cathedral,
Everyone is dressed in black-and-white
and they all go out the door
ignoring a whitebeard in motley.
Later a kid says
go down to eat
so I do
but no-one shows me a seat
then someone says
'Where are you from
there's no more food.'
I look past dry-cleaned suits
and dual hats on shaven faces
to a bowl of beets on the table
several untouched rolls
and a plate of ignored honey-cake.
   All those Swiss riches
   but not a bowl of soup 
   even for winter travelers.
        The shaharit nusach was so lugubrious
        that they must all have had breakfast at thome.
Sit for half an hour
falling in an out of sleep an eternity
while a speaker teaches the Bible 
followed by a one-man monotone sheva brachas
 
After Ma'ariv
with a long-distance havdala
(no wine for hoi polloi today)                                     
      
	Agnieska asks me how it was.
     "A good shabbos but not a great shabbos."

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Georgi Gnocci -- Mr. Mushy Potatoe-Head

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12 March -- 3 Adar Bet -- Motzi Shabat -- 

George le Bonhomme au Travaille:

By Honest George he's done it -- 
cross-bred a chicken with a centipede, 
and made a bodiless chicken
with enough miniature legs
to feed one a day to a hundred mountaineers
for a week
for fourteen dollars a pop
with factory made unfrozen freedom fries
with salt
and no ketchup.


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Christopher Hitchens makes a fair case for sysstematic pro-Bush
voter Fraud in Ohio, but stops short of doing a numerical analysis
that might raise the possibility that Bush stole the '04 election
as well as the '00 one.  No doubt from fear that, as with the JFK
aassassination, the USA electorate could not take the truth.

I kept saying, the next 4 years will be quite danagerous, for the
USA amd the world, but we must just wait them out.
But -- to think the unthinkalbe for a moment -- what assurance is
there, beside the assumption that the preponderant stupidity of
the USA electorate is not of infinite duration, that the facists
will not prevail in the next election, if any.

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James Walcott's article on Chayefsky's anti-war 1964 film 'The
Americanization of Emily' might have mentioned this British World
War I ditty:  "I love my flag, I duly do, that flutters in the
breeze / I also love my hands and feet, my toes and nose and
knees. / Onc cannon ball might jar them so, or give them such a
twist / that they'd do me no good at all; I think I won't enlist."

Incidentally, draft-card burning was never "a campus craze", if
only because college students held 2-S deferrments; the Vietnam
War was fought by lower-class blacks and whites, which may account
for its vulgarity, so well and ironically depicted in 'Apocalypse
Now'.                                        
To publically burn one's draft card was a symbolic act of non-
violent resistance that usually led directly to confinement for a
year or so in a minimum-security prison.

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"Aged Eagle"'s Apologia for not changing his Maqam:

Why must I open my mind again
and put all the stuff in that backpack out on the floor -- 
and then sit chagrinned until I can repack it
and stand up and fake it all again.

The sail set at last
wind balancing the centerboard
the heavy old sailing skiff makes ok time now
through the cold little waves.
                                                   

(Cf. =pvkto136)
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Muhammed's mosquitos,
the closing bar drunks on the street
wake me a 4 A.M.

                       (Pension LydiaHeim, Zurich, 6 March '05)

(The Prophet Muhammed, be be unto him, said, There is a purpose
for every being on earth.  Some said, What of the mosquito.  He
replied, that is to wake you for morning prayers.)

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Re:  An article in the IHT, March '5, on the Bushies' opposition
to a pending Beijing Women's Conference.

Abortion, if not unwanted pregnancy, may often be a tragedy and a
violation of Divine law,, but if is not deemed "a woman's right to
choos" , then the implication -- that a pregnant woman in that
respect loses here  individual freedom and instead becomes a ward
of the state -- is totalitarian.

And "inalienable human rights" are not 'created', they are
"endowed by the Creator" upon the class of human beings, as an
aspect of Divine Law which should be acknowleged in human law.


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The terminal languour of upper-class British diction.

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Rakoroad tunnesl should on the wall have an illuminated panorma of
the mountain under which the train is passing -- both schematic
and photographic.

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Needing to be free, I suppose, could she not hae left a fond old
man the comfort of his foolish dream.

(Cf. PVK apr.:  But then I fall into self-pity and am no good to
anyone.) 

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It is 31 degrees C in Alice Spring this morning.
She no longer wants me.

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*
                                              
Nabakov
caught killed & pinned
butterflies
in self-defense -- 
emotions I mean:
put in poems
they're still there but
can't fly up and hurt me any more.

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Neo-Euclidean Guru:

songbirds before sunrise
cold light on white peaks

He's so much on jet planes
that 3 days in one place is a vacation

8 months I sit in cold shacks
pissing against the wind
onto the snow

Rinatya writes
the almond blossoms are falling

in early morning
yaelim come down to the stream to drink
at Ein Gedi

soft light on the mountains of Sfat
seen from the Kineret

They know all about Israel
from CNN

He says, over lunch
'You won't go back
 you stay here

 but it's your life
 go ahead -- prove me wrong.'

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I reply
to "the proud man's contumely"
in poems.
That way nobody gets stuck.

     :Hamlet Retires to Wittenberg  

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Maybe on the way down
you bump into a thief.
But you need not grow up into a thief -- 
you might become a post-modernist poet
or a rap star.

    :Modification of a psychic heresy which inserts contingency
into the realms of Necessity.

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Don't ask for what you want
until you need it.
But if you ask for it
and get it
better take it.

     [#1 from me; #2 from New Buffalo. ]

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The best of heros
is bored.
He does darned near nothing
and doesn't know that he's done anything.

[ Cf. Leary, Psychedlic Prayers (adaptations from the Tao te
Ching):  "they say, we did it all ourselves'" ]

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An exercise in international English:

Maybe some day I be famous poet
but also dead
so if so
have a drink to me.

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sa, Campra, 13 March '05 -- 2 Adar Bet

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